Do We Live in a Simulation? Chances Are about 50–50 - Scientific American
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Gauging whether or not we dwell inside someone else's computer may come down to advanced AI research-or measurements at the frontiers of cosmology
October 13, 2020 8 min read Add Us On Google Add SciAm Do We Live in a Simulation? Chances Are about 50-50 Gauging whether or not we dwell inside someone else's computer may come down to advanced AI research-or measurements at the frontiers of cosmology By Anil Ananthaswamy edited by Lee Billings Floriana / Getty Images It is not often that a comedian gives an astrophysicist goose bumps when discussing the laws of physics. But comic Chuck Nice managed to do just that in a recent episode of the podcast StarTalk . The show's host Neil deGrasse Tyson had just explained the simulation argument-the
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