Are We Living in a Simulation? A Modern Look at the Simulation Argument

Are we living in a simulation, or are we becoming the simulators? From AI worlds to digital immortality and the Fermi Paradox, we explore reality’s weirdest possibility.

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Are We Living in a Simulation? A Modern Look at the Simulation Argument

Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur

Music Courtesy of Stellardrone & Chris Zabriskie

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Chapters

0:00 Intro

5:48 The Simulation Argument

13:19 Simulated Futures

13:53 Motives for Making Simulated Worlds

26:46 Can We Tell?

34:01 Simulations and the Fermi Paradox

37:32 Does It Matter?

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