The man behind Tesla Motors, Hyperloop and SpaceX thinks the chance of us not being inside an advanced civilisation's gigantic virtual reality simulation right now is "one in billions".
Speaking at Code Conference 2016, Elon Musk - responding to a question from journalist Josh Topolsky - explained that he's had so many discussions about simulation with his brother that they decided to "ban such conversations if we're ever in a hot tub - because that really kills the magic." Quite.
His proof of being in a video game? Our own video games, and the speed at which they've advanced:
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Speaking at Code Conference 2016, Elon Musk - responding to a question from journalist Josh Topolsky - explained that he's had so many discussions about simulation with his brother that they decided to "ban such conversations if we're ever in a hot tub - because that really kills the magic." Quite.
His proof of being in a video game? Our own video games, and the speed at which they've advanced:
"Forty years ago we had pong. Like, two rectangles and a dot. That was what games were. Now, 40 years later, we have photorealistic, 3D simulations with millions of people playing simultaneously, and it's getting better every year. Soon we'll have virtual reality, augmented reality.
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