{"id":7813,"date":"2016-10-06T17:03:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T00:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7813"},"modified":"2016-10-08T17:10:03","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T00:10:03","slug":"the-matrix-is-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/10\/06\/the-matrix-is-real\/","title":{"rendered":"The Matrix Is Real"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/gadgets-and-tech\/news\/computer-simulation-world-matrix-scientists-elon-musk-artificial-intelligence-ai-a7347526.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The Independent<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\" \">Tech billionaires convinced we live in the Matrix are secretly funding scientists to help break us out of it<\/h1>\n<p><em>Many of the world&#8217;s richest and most powerful people, including Elon Musk and Bank of America,\u00a0think that we live in a simulation of the real world<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by\u00a0<a title=\"Andrew Griffin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/author\/andrew-griffin\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Griffin<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/624246174001\/82f79524-152c-485f-bcb0-09197a216c87_default\/index.html?videoId=5159276930001?autoplay=0\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Some of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/gadgets-and-tech\/news\/elon-musk-ai-artificial-intelligence-computer-simulation-gaming-virtual-reality-a7060941.html\" target=\"_blank\">the world\u2019s richest and most powerful people are convinced that we are living in a computer simulation<\/a>. And now they\u2019re trying to do something about it.<\/p>\n<p>At least two of Silicon Valley\u2019s tech billionaires are pouring money into efforts to break humans out of the simulation that they believe that it is living in, according to a new report.<\/p>\n<p>Philosophers have long been concerned about how we can know that our world isn\u2019t just a very believable simulation of a real one. But concern about that has become ever more active in recent years, as computers and artificial intelligence have advanced.<\/p>\n<p>That has led\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/gadgets-and-tech\/news\/elon-musk-ai-artificial-intelligence-computer-simulation-gaming-virtual-reality-a7060941.html\" target=\"_blank\">some tech billionaires to speculate that the chances we are not living in such a simulation is \u201cbillions to one\u201d<\/a>. Even\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/gadgets-and-tech\/news\/bank-of-america-the-matrix-50-per-cent-virtual-reality-elon-musk-nick-bostrom-a7287471.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bank of America analysts wrote last month that the chances we are living in a Matrix-style fictional world is as high as 50 per cent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/gadgets-and-tech\/news\/computer-simulation-world-matrix-scientists-elon-musk-artificial-intelligence-ai-a7347526.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Independent<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Independent Tech billionaires convinced we live in the Matrix are secretly funding scientists to help break us out of it Many of the world&#8217;s richest and most powerful people, including Elon Musk and Bank of America,\u00a0think that we live in a simulation of the real world by\u00a0Andrew Griffin Some of\u00a0the world\u2019s richest and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}