The idea that reality might be a kind of cosmic software has moved from late night dorm debates into serious physics journals, and now dueling teams of researchers are claiming they finally have the ...

For years, the idea that we might be living inside a vast computer program has drifted from philosophy seminars into blockbuster movies and Reddit threads. Now a group of theoretical physicists say ...

But the argument does no such thing. Bostrom is very open to the possibility that simulations are physically impossible; this is one reason that a simulation may never be created and why Bostrom’s ...

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I was invited by the American Humanist Association to present the arguments of my paper “Natural Evil and the Simulation Hypothesis” at the national conference this past weekend. It was fun: I met a ...