The idea that reality might be a kind of cosmic software has moved from late night dorm debates into serious physics journals ...

For years, the idea that we might be living inside a vast computer program has drifted from philosophy seminars into blockbuster movies and Reddit threads. Now a group of theoretical physicists say ...

File this one under "fun to think about, probably not changing your day job": a new study just dropped that suggests gravity itself might be the smoking gun that our entire universe is one big ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Such conversations may seem flippant. But ever since Nick Bostrom of the University of Oxford ...

People have never been better, here in the Year of Our Simulation 2024, at hating the very forces underlying that simulation—at hating, in other words, digital technology itself. And good for them.