{"id":1262,"date":"2012-09-13T09:21:16","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T13:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2012-09-13T09:21:16","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T13:21:16","slug":"whoa-dude-are-we-inside-a-computer-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/09\/13\/whoa-dude-are-we-inside-a-computer-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"WHOA, DUDE, ARE WE INSIDE A COMPUTER RIGHT NOW?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vice.com\/read\/whoa-dude-are-we-inside-a-computer-right-now-0000329-v19n9\">NASA Scientist suggests everything we see, touch, feel, taste, and smell could be a simulation running inside a computer.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><em>It&#8217;s an idea that every college student with a gravity bong and The Matrix on DVD has thought of before, but [Rich Terrile] is a well-regarded scientist, the director of the Center for Evolutionary Computation and Automated Design at NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and is currently writing an as-yet-untitled book about the subject.<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Metafilter?a=RG85w0Wdvtw:ZCA-3hunoJk:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Metafilter?i=RG85w0Wdvtw:ZCA-3hunoJk:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>via MetaFilter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/119883\/WHOA-DUDE-ARE-WE-INSIDE-A-COMPUTER-RIGHT-NOW\">http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/119883\/WHOA-DUDE-ARE-WE-INSIDE-A-COMPUTER-RIGHT-NOW<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA Scientist suggests everything we see, touch, feel, taste, and smell could be a simulation running inside a computer. It&#8217;s an idea that every college student with a gravity bong and The Matrix on DVD has thought of before, but [Rich Terrile] is a well-regarded scientist, the director of the Center for Evolutionary Computation and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/09\/13\/whoa-dude-are-we-inside-a-computer-right-now\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WHOA, DUDE, ARE WE INSIDE A COMPUTER RIGHT NOW?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[589,6,79],"class_list":["post-1262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-reader","tag-crunchland","tag-ifttt","tag-metafilter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-km","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}