{"id":106599,"date":"2016-10-04T08:56:08","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T06:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=106599"},"modified":"2016-10-04T08:56:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T06:56:50","slug":"silicon-valleys-billionaires-are-asking-scientists-to-help-us-break-out-of-the-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/106599-silicon-valleys-billionaires-are-asking-scientists-to-help-us-break-out-of-the-matrix","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley&#8217;s billionaires are asking scientists to help us break out of the Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two of Silicon Valley&#8217;s biggest names, Elon Musk and Sam Altman, are asking scientists to help break humanity out of the computer simulation we are all living in.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many people in Silicon Valley have become obsessed with the simulation hypothesis, the argument that what we experience as reality is in fact fabricated in a computer,&#8221; reports <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2016\/10\/10\/sam-altmans-manifest-destiny\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two tech billionaires have gone so far as to secretly engage scientists to work on breaking us out of the simulation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The article also indicates that other billionaires are also interested in the theory, although it doesn&#8217;t disclose any further names.<\/p>\n<p>But despite the interest, these billionaires aren&#8217;t too comfortable talking about the theory:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;it got to the point where basically every conversation was the AI slash simulation conversation and\u00a0my brother and I finally agreed that we&#8217;d ban any such conversations if we&#8217;re ever in a hot tub,&#8221; said Musk\u00a0at Vox Media&#8217;s Code Conference\u00a0in June.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because that really kills the magic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to 5 reasons why you can safely skip Nvidia and AMD\u2019s latest graphics cards\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/105647-5-reasons-why-you-can-safely-skip-nvidia-and-amds-latest-graphics-cards.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">5 reasons why you can safely skip Nvidia and AMD\u2019s latest graphics cards<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Epic graphics card deals in South Africa this week\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/106367-epic-graphics-card-deals-in-south-africa-this-week-6.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Epic graphics card deals in South Africa this week<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Best games you can play this week \u2013 mobs and mice\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/106427-best-games-you-can-play-this-week-mobs-and-mice.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Best games you can play this week \u2013 mobs and mice<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are we just slaves to the machine?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":106601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[31,21493,22487,12157,22489,2189],"class_list":["post-106599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-active","tag-billionaire","tag-blue-pil","tag-matrix","tag-red-pill","tag-simulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106603,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106599\/revisions\/106603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}