The strongest argument for us being in a simulation is the following: 40 years ago, we had Pong. Two rectangles and a dot. Now, 40 years later, we have photorealistic 3D with millions playing simultaneously. If you assume any rate of improvement at all, then the games will become indistinguishable from reality, even if that rate of advancement drops by 1000 from what it is now. It’s a given that we’re clearly on a trajectory that we’re going to have games that are indistinguishable from reality. It would seem to follow that the odds that we’re in base reality is 1 in millions.
This fascinated me. Elon Musk, one of America’s brilliant minds, gives his opinion of the future, which is basically some version of The Matrix, Vanilla Sky, or Surrogates. If you watch the video you find out this is something that he has thought about so many times, that he has created rules to prevent himself from talking about it too much. Incredible.
*On another note, this explains Steph Curry’s range. No one could be that accurate “for reals”.