Reality Is All Just a Simulation

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Of course, the goal of uploading our brains assumes that we aren’t already living in a computer simulation. Hear out the logic: Technologically advanced civilizations will eventually make simulations that are indistinguishable from reality. If that can happen, odds are it has. And if it has, there are probably billions of simulations making their own simulations. Work out that math, and "the odds are nearly infinity to one that we are all living in a computer simulation," writes Ed Grabianowski for io9.


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Infinity to one that we are a simulation, and probably a simulation made by a simulation? That's what you call a good bet....

Is everyone relieved? If all this shit was real, that would be incredibly fucked-up, but this is just a game that's about over. Whew. Change the set-up and try again.

Anyway, fireflys are explained. They are just an app, someone threw them in just because they are so cool.