If We're Living in a Simulation, the Gods Might Be Crazy

A professor of philosophy responds to David Iserson's "This, but Again." That we're living in a computer simulation--it sounds like a paranoid fantasy. But it's a possibility that futurists, philosophers, and scientific cosmologists treat increasingly seriously. Oxford philosopher and noted futurist Nick Bostrom estimates there's about a 1 in 3 chance that we're living in a computer simulation. Billionaire Elon Musk says it's a near-certainty.