Are we all Living in a Simulation?

Is our reality just a simulation? Explore Nick Bostrom's simulation argument and the evidence for and against it. Elon Musk and Neil DeGrasse Tyson weigh in. The truth may surprise you.

[wilhelmusrobben]

Why did they have to simulate my lower back pain?😢

[xabih]

"Either we are first or last" only works if each civilization only creates one simulation.

[thejudgmentalcat]

Simon needs to do an episode where he explains all his YouTube clones...I think he's up to 22 now 😂

[feanacar]

I’ve lived in existential distress for years. 😢

[wendyrichards]

Personally i'd find being a simulation something of a relief, if i'm just a pawn (For want of a better word ) being shoved about for someone else's edification, then i'm both serving a purpose while actually not mattering very much .An idea I find both mildly validating and oddly relaxing .My only real problem with the whole concept is why ? Whoever is running me (And an awful lot of other people ) must be insanely bored by my not very interesting existence .I find it incredibly hard to believe that there's any element of entertainment involved .Maybe we are part of some history class program being studied by a lot of unwilling teenagers .If so then i'm really sorry kids .

[BorderlineBinge]

I could have sworn this video came out months ago. Am I experiencing a glitch in the matrix right now? Did Simon not cover simulation theory like 3 months ago?

Edit: ah, it was like a year ago on Decoding the Unknown. Simon, your infinite channels just made me question my reality.

[francisfischer]

I really do appreciate how quickly you speak and how clearly you propose a concept. Most other speakers get pedantic before they get to the point. Thank you, Francis

[cc-dtv]

"no slimey rebirth for you" why do i feel like i will see this exact scene, simon and all, when i die...

[Sir_Uncle_Ned]

If we are in a simulation, then we have already found spacial and temporal minimums defining the resolution, which are called the Planck units. Defining the absolute minimums of time, length, heat, and mass that are possible under known physics

[theprairietinkerer]

Very interesting, and a coincidence too. I'm (trying) to get through The Game is Life by Terry Schott. The idea is that children go into a suspended state in a simulation and live a whole life in just a few months. However, as I've found out, it goes much deeper by simulations inside simulations. A very good read.

[KovesVids]

Speed of light : I'm proof life is a simulation.

Quantum Entanglement : Hold my beer.

[callo]

The trolley scenario is actually not far from the kind of decisions that commanders in wars have to make. They have to make tough decisions where sometimes the outcome is going to likely end up with someone dying no matter what decision you make, but maybe one decision causes fewer deaths

[joegordon]

There's an interesting recent documentary film, A Glitch in the Matrix, which delves into this, including talking to some individuals who believe they are in a simulation (appropriately instead of seeing the person interviewed, we see a virtual avatar of them!), some of them had put a lot of thought into it -one concluded it was likely he was in a simulation, but since it still allowed him to live a life, he may as well just get on and enjoy that life. Pretty interesting documentary.

[YoungGandalf]

I pray to whoever is running the simulation, please do not shut it off. Also, I would like a pizza to magically appear in front of me right now. 🍕

[SwampyColorado]

I have degrees in engineering and physics and I just don't dwell too much on things humans will never know because it could be even crazier than you imagine, but we'll never know.

[Video-Game-OST-HQ]

To shoot down the idea that the speed of light indicates a maximum simulator processor speed: I am an R&D video-game programmer. I make game engines for a living. I was a senior graphics programmer on the Luminous Studio Engine at Square Enix for Final Fantasy XV.
There doesn’t need to be a universal maximum speed tied to the simulating computer’s processing speed because the simulation wouldn’t be real-time. Meaning that while the computer works on a single update, nothing inside the simulation perceives time as passing. All things in the simulation would be paused until the update finishes, and then the next update would begin with each object paused until the update finishes, repeat. The computer can have as long as it wants to finish an update, so saying that the speed of light indicates some other-worldly computer’s processor speed really has no meaning at all.

If the universe just suddenly stops right now, we would have no idea. We would never be aware of the time gap between when it stops and resumes. Every second, the universe could be paused 1, 000, 000, 000 times while some little machine goes around and adjusts every atom or subatomic particle, and we would have no idea this was happening, even if this updating process took trillions of years per single update.

[twosometwosome]

Computer simoulation is one of the best explanations for the crazy behavior of the double slit experiment.

[jackmaney]

As someone who has done so-called machine learning professionally for over a decade, "[a simulation indistinguishable from our own reality] is clearly a long way off in the future" is an overwhelmingly vast understatement. Never underestimate the stupidity of computers.

[aquillawhingate]

Although briefly stated I find the idea of Simulation interesting when considering subatomic particles; specifically example being the double slit experiment as to whether it is a particle or a wave, and the observers effect.

[godisanarc]

The double slit experiment yields a bit of proof to the simulation theory as well