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The Simulation Hypothesis — Are We Living in a Virtual World?
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The Simulation Hypothesis gained popularity in 2003, when philosopher Nick Bostrom proposed a now-famous paper. He laid out a trilemma — three possibilities:
- Advanced civilizations never reach a point where they can run large-scale simulations of their ancestors.
- They reach that point, but choose not to run such simulations.
- They do run them — and there are so many simulations that simulated beings vastly outnumber real ones.
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