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Are We Living In The Matrix? | WIRED
20 years ago, futurist Nick Bostrom published the first draft of his groundbreaking simulation argument, which asks, “Are you living in a computer simulation?” Public figures like Elon Musk and Neil deGrass Tyson have also broached this line of questioning. We asked Nick Bostrom to look at a few scenes from “The Matrix” films as…
Kimberly G.
December 15, 2021 at 8:10 pm
Perhaps the simulation is the way the super-intelligence replicates / procreates. When we’ve achieved what we think is true machine intelligence here in the simulation … that’s just the birth of a new super-intelligence. The Terminator-style obliteration of reality is just birthing pains.
Simulation 2001
December 15, 2021 at 9:08 pm
That’s why I’m so scared of the future
If time travel is possible I would go back to the 1990’s or the 1980’s
KevWebsz
December 15, 2021 at 8:12 pm
They don’t use our literal electricity they use our consciousness. We have imagination and all that to push the world forward. Creating, building, all of that.
Sn0w.
December 15, 2021 at 8:18 pm
if we do live in a simulation, that would explain why we haven’t seen any sign of alien life.
Simulation 2001
December 15, 2021 at 9:06 pm
Because we live inside a Simulation created by Aliens, they’re outside the Simulation…Let’s hope they wouldn’t delete our files so we could live our life again and again.
freggo
December 15, 2021 at 10:03 pm
To the Aliens out there WE are the aliens!
Andy Lakonelli
December 15, 2021 at 8:24 pm
yes.
lari_alt
December 15, 2021 at 8:37 pm
The ad is still playing, i can already say: yes, yes we are
AgiHammerthief
December 15, 2021 at 8:44 pm
„align with our values, share our intentions“ yeah, no thanks. Maybe try to do better.
Simulation 2001
December 15, 2021 at 8:57 pm
The *MATRIX*
Jay Tee
December 15, 2021 at 9:06 pm
Fanciful 🐂💩😂
Simulation 2001
December 15, 2021 at 9:16 pm
If we live in Simulation/Video Game…
Then lets find a way to hack it, Cheats!!!
NinjaGuySith
December 15, 2021 at 9:53 pm
I always find it interesting that the newest prevailing idea of what reality is for humans is based on the latest technology. The first humans worshiped animals for their strength and power. After we developed farming, humans valued a higher intelligence known as God, because we lacked the technology to explain our natural world. Now that we live in the technological age, we see that A.I. has the potential to be God, in a sense that it has the power to can create realities. It makes me wonder what the next form of evolution will be, after computers and A.I. If A.I. is just a machine that can solve small problems at an infinite scale, I would guess that the next step is a technology that doesn’t just solve problems but is able to ask the right questions.
home Forester
December 15, 2021 at 9:55 pm
So simulation look like real
freggo
December 15, 2021 at 10:01 pm
Who knows. We all may be someone’s Sims 🙂
Max Jerome
December 15, 2021 at 10:38 pm
My guess is that we are neurons organisms that a part of a larger conciousnous unaware of our actual reality but living in a perpetual shared dream world.
GCM
December 15, 2021 at 10:39 pm
4:13 yeahhhhh…. that’s a BIG leap in faith. We don’t even understand what consciousness is, let alone have any idea of what kind of technology could replicate it. Consciousness could be very much an artifact of quantum effects that are diametrically opposed to our current – binary and deterministic – framework of computing.
rdpcl
December 15, 2021 at 11:02 pm
The issue is not artificial intelligence, it’s artificial conscience.
Mind Blown
December 15, 2021 at 11:27 pm
The #1 reason why we are NOT LIVING IN A SIMULATION is because we can conjure that we are living in a simulation. The REALITY behind our existence is simply unknowable.
David McCarthy
December 15, 2021 at 11:51 pm
So if we are in a simulation now, then what happens when we advance enough to create our own simulation. Just nesting simulations forever or does the hypnosis break down at that point.
claire davis
December 15, 2021 at 11:52 pm
What about God? When god answers our prayers & yet god is a being we know nothing about next to the fact of love
Ruben de León
December 15, 2021 at 11:53 pm
Wasn’t the original draft of the matrix about human brains connected and working as processing cluster (like a network of supercomputers) instead of the energy source final version?
Chris Trajectory
December 16, 2021 at 12:44 am
I think it must have been changed because a battery is easier to understand, even though it is nonsense in terms of thermodynamics
Augusto dos Anjos
December 16, 2021 at 12:06 am
Yah! The Matrix is ourselff brains! lol
Chris Trajectory
December 16, 2021 at 12:42 am
I doubt his hypothesis. Consider using a computer to simulate a single hydrogen atom. Solving for the wavefunction is not trivial. Then, consider solving for that of a single molecule or neuron- this would be a gargantuan task necessitating huge amounts of computing time and electricity. Multiply this by around infinity to account for all of the other fields and properties of all other matter in the universe, and then multiply it by about infinity again to account for their infinite interactions–The sheer, stupendously enormous computing task, even with something like quantum computing doing it in parallel, makes me wonder why an advanced civilization would bother conducting such an experiment.
burgercat
December 16, 2021 at 12:58 am
look at unreal engine 4 and then look at the tech leap to unreal engine 5 and then imagine the possibilities
Chris Trajectory
December 16, 2021 at 1:07 am
@burgercat The UE4 trailer is nice, of course. But all it is is polygons. For an *actual* simulation, it would need to individually simulate every single particle, in terms of gravity, electromagnetism, fluid dynamics etc. You would need the computing power of the entire earth just to simulate a tree or something
burgercat
December 16, 2021 at 1:24 am
@Chris Trajectory i think you should have a look at what ue5 can do. they are not using the same polygons anymore. and the problem you are mentioning is basically being handled on some level. you can see the massive leap in tech while requiring almost the same amount of power.
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Alfi Aflahal Muflih
December 16, 2021 at 1:07 am
if we indeed living in the simulation, it is safe to assume that the whole universe is also a simulation rather than only us (humans) that living in that simulation. so there’s no alien or something like that.
Will Kirchheimer
December 16, 2021 at 1:17 am
The obvious truth is that this universe was created by someone that wanted a lot more Nicholas Cage movies than existed in their real universe.
Scott
December 16, 2021 at 11:27 am
You are insane.
Jims
December 16, 2021 at 6:02 pm
What is insane about this video?
Darhan62
December 16, 2021 at 12:41 pm
I love Nick Bostrom. Such a great mind. Many thoughts regarding the nature of innovation, intelligence, and reality… And about risk.
TesserId
December 16, 2021 at 12:42 pm
Resolving ethical questions around suffering should be dealt with first. It’s time to stop blaming God of Satan for all the suffering humans experience, particularly to admit that humanity, or the so-called human-condition, is the cause of suffering (including that Buddhist problem of desire). This is not a simple problem. If we are going to create a virtual world, then we are going to become The Creators; and if there will be no way to escape that world, then those suffering there will blame its creators the way so many today blame God or Satan.
TesserId
December 16, 2021 at 1:00 pm
No, a _clear_ pill. We need a capacity for reflection that brings clarity to our capacity to reflect on and distinguish all layers of the human experience, and do so with clarity. We already have too many socially constructed filters, and true reality can not perceived if these gauzy curtains cannot be swept aside
Chandler Jerald
December 16, 2021 at 1:57 pm
What’s with the silly ‘?’ at the end of ‘Yes’
Kevin Wiltshire
December 16, 2021 at 2:08 pm
Of course we live in a simulation Joe biden’s a president the simulation is obviously breaking down since he hasn’t been impeached yet
Jims
December 16, 2021 at 6:01 pm
Your soul and spiritual nature is being weighed down by the anchor of meaningless political opinions. Rather than ponder the incomprehensible nature of our existence, and the existence of the universe, and the existence of the potential other universes before ours, you want to make a political statement about an old man in the United States?
Eric Rovelo
December 16, 2021 at 2:59 pm
6:20 did they use the Bible for the fictional worlds as words on a page section 😫🤣
Jordan Wallis
December 16, 2021 at 4:01 pm
That means we in that stupid tube fill with liquid and plugged into a simulation?
64-bit Crypto
December 16, 2021 at 4:27 pm
Red pill atw
Ickabodxx
December 16, 2021 at 4:37 pm
If we live in a simulation, then God is real. Programmer = God
Hans-Ronny Lorentzen
December 16, 2021 at 5:29 pm
I have seen horror movies on youtube, where scenes looked “almost” real. And im still wonder if they where real some of them. Those movies vannished after a short while though.
Pastor Ricky Beckett
December 16, 2021 at 5:39 pm
“If we’re in a simulation, it would mean there is some sort of intelligent creator.” Boy, have I got Good News for you.
Morty
December 16, 2021 at 5:58 pm
4:31 Wow I just realized the architect looks a lot like Elon Musk if he were old 😳
MyFaith MyWings
December 16, 2021 at 6:26 pm
When all else fails, read the owners manual…we *were* created by someone and put here. Plot twist: the Bible has been true all along. God bless all of the truth seekers~
James Ruscheinski
December 16, 2021 at 6:34 pm
Political / federal government is a matrix which can end with substantive human rights confederation and kingship authority for priests / ministers
akab211
December 16, 2021 at 7:23 pm
Perhaps…
LeggoCrewTV
December 16, 2021 at 7:26 pm
Yes. The answer is yes.
ddacaro
December 16, 2021 at 8:49 pm
The last thing I would do is design AI to be on the side of humans with human intentions. I don’t know that Nick meant that statement to be complete. Maybe it should be, “To design AI to be pro-human life above all other functions”. Maybe this too is problematic, would AI robots then go to bat for pro-life organizations? But if so, they might also be unable to carry out violence against pro-choice advocates? Better put a big heat sink on the CPU brain of that AI robot!
Srinivas Kulkarni
December 16, 2021 at 9:03 pm
Everything robots do, would have to abide by the three laws of robotics by Asimov!
The Marvelous Donohues
December 16, 2021 at 9:34 pm
the evolution of computers is amazing! I remember 30 years ago when 100MB hard drives were the rage…the fundamental question is whether we will have the interest or capability of a simulated world —
fox23vaj
December 16, 2021 at 9:45 pm
The simple fact that we exist reveals that we are living in a simulation, Gods simulation. God is infinite and everything that has been done and yet to be done, God has already seen it all in an instant. We are playing on a loop for all infinite time. We have lived an infinite lives as God experiences infinity through us. All these lives are yours, you just dont know it, because God doesnt want to know it. Just as the trillions of cells in your body live out each second of the day unware they’re trapped inside a body, like the millions of humans in a city scattering about. God is whatever you want it to be, because anything you can think of is God. Dont mistake me for saying God is Allah or Jesus or Satan.
DOOMJESUS
December 16, 2021 at 9:48 pm
THAT’S SAD.
IT IS AMAZING THAT IT IS SO DIFFICULT FOR PEOPLE TO COMPREHEND AND ACCEPT THE SIMPLICITY OF LIFE AND THAT THE EARTH IS THE BATTLEGROUND OF GOOD AND EVIL.
Tanin
December 16, 2021 at 10:07 pm
As a cognitive researcher, I can with 100% certainty state that most humans are living in artificial simulations of mental simulacra, created by social and corporate constructs, fed by information ecosystems, designed to sustain a symbiotic supersystem within which the species and with it the system itself can evolve ever higher forms of consciousness and collective consciousness.
𝔇𝔯 ℌ𝔬𝔣𝔣𝔪𝔞𝔫
December 16, 2021 at 10:56 pm
Buddhism indicated simulation waaaaay back a lot of modern vernacular can be perceived to have parallels.. Escape the wheel of life via following of the 4 noble truths and 8 fold path in order to imbue correct karma and not have to reincarnate and thus ascend beyond the cycle of life death and rebirth.
Modern version = Transcend this polarity instilled matter based reality via increasing ones energy via positive action which allows one to pass certain dimensional (or frequency) barriers and enter other forms of existence.
Of course one could go all cheat mode for a quick peek behind the scenes and just take a breakthrough dose of DMT lol.
Simulation = Creation
Just got up to point you mention Buddhism and Plato..
“Demon” = Demiurge and some would say “Archons” = Agents
Kudos hehehe
me that guy
December 17, 2021 at 12:22 am
How do we know we are trapped in a simulation?
and not just a program ourselves, who are part a system.
Feels real? Or are we programmed to believe that?
Humanity lends way to much self importance to “Existence”.
Nea
December 17, 2021 at 12:52 am
2:39 (subs): but its* reality…
Alec Leigh
December 17, 2021 at 9:49 am
believing or speculating that we are in a simulation is the equivalent to when we thought the universe/sun/stars revolved around earth. cause once you go out of this simulation, you”ll ask yourself the same question if that new reality is a simulation too, and the question eventually becomes endless. It’s once we come in to contact with more advanced civilizations (both technically/scientifically and spiritually more advanced than us) that the question either becomes more relevant or irrelevant.
PDC Design
December 18, 2021 at 2:00 am
Probably more irrelevant.
elwingy
December 17, 2021 at 9:56 am
To be honest. If someone told me I have the option to live in a simulated world and having complete ignorance about it, I’d take it…make of that what you want…
huggeebear
December 17, 2021 at 10:43 am
They already share ‘your’ Eurocentric values. And they’re racist af, and would lie when in their best interests , to quote GPT-3. Not the kind of AI we can co-exist with.
Khannea
December 17, 2021 at 10:54 am
Holy s*** what happened to Nick, he looks like a total daddy these days.
Tily Pily
December 17, 2021 at 11:16 am
“AI systems that share our values, or that are aligned with human intentions.” – Its sound very funny. It is impossible to combine human values and intelligence. If people want to have mechanical slaves, then there is no need to give them intelligence.
KootFloris
December 17, 2021 at 11:39 am
NO! We aren’t living in a matrix. That’s just the game players projection on reality. As much as the Newtonians suddenly saw God as a clockmaker and the Darwinians saw it all as a fight for survival.
But it’ll become the new religion, because people want answers and not feel responsible for this world.
Burt Backattack
December 17, 2021 at 11:54 am
No. No we’re not.
Cool movies though…
inuvik
December 17, 2021 at 12:49 pm
1:48 “Buddhist concept of Dharma”? Dharma means something else entirely, the concept of the world as “Maya” predates Buddhism and is a core tenet of a lot of Hinduism
Alone in an Earthship
December 17, 2021 at 3:28 pm
or 4, we are living before simulations exist.
Jay Kumar
December 17, 2021 at 3:51 pm
Super intelligence by nick bostron is an excellent book! It has so many fascinating scenarios to tell! A must read, surely a man with extreme intelligence!
Nicko G.
December 17, 2021 at 4:13 pm
You have to dumb your mind down a lot to believe it, but sure. Being in the metaverse can (in theory) be exactly the same as in real life. With the right gear and dull enough senses or spot check as we would say in D&D. If your spot check is really terrible then why wouldn’t it seem and feel like real life?
That’s my goal in -life- metalife.
And it was the same as when I stepped onto this platform as well. Just like GLaDOS said, it was just a test. once you step onto the next platform, you’ll see.
killing field
December 17, 2021 at 4:44 pm
“Create an AI aligned with human intensions,” hahahaha yeah, good luck with that 😂🤣
Aubers
December 17, 2021 at 8:16 pm
People who believe in the simulation theory are only those who lost meaning in life.
Lysa Woolley
December 17, 2021 at 9:24 pm
I just watched matrix last month. I know I’m very behind 😂 It aged well. I think that simulation is completely possible.
hzhang1228
December 17, 2021 at 11:35 pm
pretty certain im just a npc… *deep sigh* hey super intelligent simulators, mind recycling me into a nicer place when you are done with this game? thank you
L117
December 18, 2021 at 2:15 am
It’s obvious that we don’t live in a computer simultion because you only have to look around you in the real world to realize that the world would be more organized than it is to create a more pleasant experience, but i think a large part of people will chose to live in a virtual version of the world without leaving their homes in the near future.
Vegeta
December 18, 2021 at 2:32 am
If we live in a simulation, I hope is not running on Windows or someone uses ctrl+alt+dlt…
ohSHISUI
December 18, 2021 at 2:35 am
We not in no simulation
Janae Salinas
December 18, 2021 at 9:44 am
The issue with AI development and the alignment of human goals is that not all humans share the same moral high ground.
M T
December 18, 2021 at 12:17 pm
It’s weird how there’s not a hypothesis that suggests human technological progress will inevitably halt because we’ve reached our maximum potential.
Shecklesmack
December 20, 2021 at 3:59 am
Ah, but once we figure out how to use technology to enhance our own intelligence, suddenly the limits are gone and our enhanced selves will enhance ourselves to be even more advanced, rinse and repeat ad infinitum.
Adam
December 18, 2021 at 4:01 pm
So what are our “human values” and “human intentions”?
King God Brush
December 18, 2021 at 4:32 pm
Carbon nanotube radios cochlears,injected behind the ears without citizens knowledge, WARNING
Cheef Sosa
December 18, 2021 at 11:41 pm
David Smith
December 19, 2021 at 12:13 am
not a very bad demon if he’s going to give us things like Love, Laughter, Dogs, Chocolate, Sunsets, a multitude of Fruits…and Hopes and Dreams.
Farzyno Music
December 19, 2021 at 1:36 am
I see life as a computation that merely exists out of a necessity to experience something. I believe the one who experiences cycles through bodies, living the life of every person in history, then a new universe is created. Life is simply a way to experience everything that is logically possible.
andy rogers
December 19, 2021 at 7:22 am
What if… just what if we are A.I. and we don’t know it yet
Cj Senanayake
December 19, 2021 at 10:23 am
THE BEST EXISTENCE IS NONE EXISTENCE.
KNOW LIFE, KNOW PAIN.
NO LIFE, NO PAIN.
ANTINATALISM.
Ramon Garcia
December 19, 2021 at 10:33 am
Hola por favor PÓNGANLE SUBTITULOS EN ESOAÑOL!
Calenté Cardwell
December 19, 2021 at 10:02 pm
We vote #2
Special EDy
December 19, 2021 at 10:58 pm
Religion disguised as science…
Ely Scanner
December 21, 2021 at 9:55 am
i don’t see any rituals, money or wars over this topic so i guess more proper term is scientific speculation
Victor Blake
December 20, 2021 at 12:05 am
It’s possible that a great evolved version of humanity may/will have created our world as a simulation…. I mean, you know? Maybe?
GamerbyDesign
December 20, 2021 at 7:04 am
Yes this is one of the theories.
Christian Munoz
December 20, 2021 at 4:03 am
“Staying in our own current state of ignorance”…
Gabriel Deras
December 20, 2021 at 4:15 am
It is a terrible idea to align an IA to human intentions provided human intentions are always good in theory but terrible in practice
Rodney G Albert III
December 20, 2021 at 4:21 am
Yall should get Thomas Campbell to explain the theory, He wrote a tremendous trilogy about his Big TOE
SnoopyDoo
December 20, 2021 at 7:51 pm
When you go to sleep at night, the Matrix is uploading upgrades.
Timothy Lux
December 20, 2021 at 11:37 pm
They want our energy, each one of us has enormous energy some of us just suppress it with drugs, and alcohol, and ego, and ignorance. I feel my energy being drained by people every day. Protect your energy that’s how you fight back.
Sunny Highway
December 21, 2021 at 10:41 am
t was the same as when I stepped onto this platform as well. Just like GLaDOS said, it was just a test. once you step onto the next platform, you’ll see.
Life On The Streets
December 21, 2021 at 4:22 pm
Yes we are and I’m about to inject a deadly virus to the Matrix and take over the program to free consciousness.
29North
December 21, 2021 at 5:22 pm
Metaverse is here
Lester Reyes
December 21, 2021 at 6:34 pm
Nick Bostrom da god
Jihed Birtan
December 22, 2021 at 12:10 am
We are cells in the universe, which is the inside of a brain of a bigger head. And that giant head is talking to other giant heads about the possibility of living in a matrix. Same as our brain cells that must be having the same discussion inside our dark skull.
Kartaispavarau
December 22, 2021 at 1:06 am
We live in matrix. we cand do anything, we have rules , penalties, we cant even leave earth. this is matrix, and we are just a small part. criminals and hackers are hunted. they want to escape the matrix.
J. Galactus
December 22, 2021 at 2:25 am
Some people have all the luck in the _world_ by spawning in the right _servers_ with great benefits and no cheaters.
zodiacfml
December 22, 2021 at 11:38 am
yes but no. no because doesn’t change anything
Sandy J
December 22, 2021 at 2:09 pm
So they are now creationist as its not evolution but simulation ? They dont want energy…..but cognitive and creative abilities of the brain of the people
Sam Constantin
December 22, 2021 at 5:44 pm
So it’s a loop🔄 now:
Human start with the belief in GOD creating human and all creations (which is the rightful religions came with through human history) to disbelief in all religions (Western abolition of church for misleading reasons) adobting natural selection and accidental universe..
then with the quantum physics and computer age we back to square one with this silly idea of “we are living in a simulation created by super intelligence architect” which is some fancy description of these genuis people returning to sense and believe in God again 🤦
Henry Casillas
December 22, 2021 at 9:51 pm
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Hooked On Fishing
December 22, 2021 at 10:57 pm
Your good.
Spoon
December 23, 2021 at 1:11 am
No
The one
December 23, 2021 at 10:29 am
I feel like Jesus is the way to break out
Shihab Rahman
December 23, 2021 at 2:10 pm
AI aligned with human intentions?? Scary!
avokado
December 23, 2021 at 9:40 pm
I love that you don’t know who is behind any YouTube comment here. Might be 15 year old boy or a 50 year old scientist. Either way the words speaks for itself
JL
December 23, 2021 at 10:00 pm
We’re AI
Huy Petrovich
December 23, 2021 at 10:56 pm
Looking forward to reading an upcoming book “The Superintelligence Delusion.”
Half a Vlog
December 24, 2021 at 2:15 am
If it’s a simulation, then the “No flying like Superman” in our simulation is a bummer.
Yan Gionet
December 24, 2021 at 2:25 am
I hope we are living in the reality
Subhajit Roy
December 24, 2021 at 5:32 am
Wow
Soumya Ripan
December 24, 2021 at 1:02 pm
Its a little complex to understand and I still don’t completely.
But it’s really beautiful to know bostrom’s theory. Will recommend to watch his conversation with JRE or Lex.
Tim G
December 24, 2021 at 3:45 pm
One of the indicators that we are living in a computer simulation is that as soon as there is peace on earth someone attacks. All throughout history. For example as soon as the cold war ended Iraq invaded Kuwait and Serbia attacked Kosovo/Croatia etc. Read up on the history of Europe. As soon as one war ended another country attacked a neighbor. It’s almost like they had to. The history of the Peloponnesian War is the same — city-states attacking each other for little gain.
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Stephen Allen Music
December 24, 2021 at 11:14 pm
The internet is the matrix