John Tierney profiled the Simulation Hypothesis of IEET’s Nick Bostrom‘s in the New York Times:
Until I talked to Nick Bostrom, a philosopher at Oxford University, it never occurred to me that our universe might be somebody else’s hobby. I hadn’t imagined that the omniscient, omnipotent creator of the heavens and earth could be an advanced version of a guy who spends his weekends building model railroads or overseeing video-game worlds like the Sims.
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There has been extensive commentary on the article and the hypothesis, such as:
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