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Does Elon Musk live in a simulation?

9 January, 2022

The world is a computer simulation. A podcast about why many modern scientists and philosophers consider this the most likely hypothesis and what follows from it.


Moderator: 
Anton Kuznetsov is a Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, a researcher at the MCCS at the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University.

Participants:
Dmitry Volkov - Professor, Doctor of Philosophy, Co-Director of the MCCS at the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University
Alexander Vetushinsky is a candidate of Philosophical Sciences, a researcher at the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University and an expert at the Beber Gamification Laboratory.

Timecode: 
00:00 - Introduction
02:28 - Elon Musk says that we live in a simulation
04:05 - Plan
04:45 - Isaac Asimov and the fight against entropy
07:43 - Why should we be serious about talking about the fact that the world is a simulation?
10:33 - The simulation argument and its premises
16:10 - What is wrong with this argument?
22:38 - How can a person, realizing that he or she is in the program, get out of it?
26:00 - Is the computational power of the simulation limited?
26:40 - If we are in a simulation, is it possible to communicate with its creators?
27:50 - Life in a simulation requires art classes
30:10 - How will a person in a simulation understand that he or she is in a simulation?
32:07 - Three theses about simulation. Digital, not fundamental, it has creators
34:54 - What is beyond simulation?
37:30 - Maybe the simulation is just another metaphor?
40:23 - Is it possible to have consciousness inside a simulation?
41:26 - Superpowers, changing basic laws and endless life in simulation
45:20 - What does death mean in a simulation?
47:31 - Is simulation a chance for the survival of mankind?
48:44 - We urgently need to create a simulation
49:27 - How should society and ethics change in the simulation?
51:28 - Political program of the simulation party 
52:58 - Simulation rules limit our ability to understand the world
54:11 - If rebirth is possible, do we live in a simulation?
56:45 - A block of final remarks from the participants
59:23 - summary from AI

Listen to the podcast on the platforms:

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