Elon Musk Says the Odds are Billions to One in Favor of Theory
NEW YORK, New York, United States, 8th Jan 2025, – The podcast “What’s Bugging Me” takes a deep dive this week into the simulation theory—the bizarre yet somewhat plausible notion that we are living inside a computer simulation run by someone else, somewhere else.
Podcast host Dennis Kneale tells his listeners that Elon Musk is a true believer in the simulation scenario. “Elon’s belief in the Matrix enables and empowers all else that follows,” Kneale says in Episode #108 of “What’s Bugging Me.” This lets Musk take huge risks and live larger because—what the heck—this all may be just a game, Kneale explains.
This simulation argument forms Lesson One in Kneale’s new book, “The Leadership Genius of Elon Musk,” out in just three weeks. Lesson One states: “This all may be fake, so just go for it.” Published by HarperCollins, the book offers Eleven Lessons of Elon and is available for pre-order now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Books A Million. The official publish date is January 28, 2025.
Musk made one of his first public pronouncements on the simulation idea in an onstage interview in 2016, which is available here: www.youtube.com. He pointed out that video games started in 1970 with Pong—two moving bars of light and a small square, ping-ponging back and forth against a static black background—and advanced to super-realistic 3D simulations on-screen in just 50 years.
So, in 10,000 years’ time a simulation would be doable—and the universe is almost 14 billion years old. Thus, 1.4 million separate spans of 10,000 years already have unfolded, and this makes a simulation more likely. And if one simulation could exist, there could be millions or even billions of simulations ongoing, Elon has argued.
For the pod, Kneale interviews physicist Melvyn Vopson of the University of Portsmouth in the U.K., who discusses the technological and scientific underpinnings for the simulation hypothesis. Vopson has won notoriety for creating the Second Law of Information Dynamics, which argues that while entropy—complexity and decay—in the universe is always increasing, information entropy is always on the decrease. He discovered everything from our DNA to the Covid virus to bacteria to symmetry in nature and even manmade disc drives.
This may lend support to the simulation theory, Vopson says: if our reality were a simulation, it would require massive computing power, and reducing information stored and processed would be a key part of this.
“I’m very excited about this. And this is a pure piece of solid physics work which generated an unusual conclusion,” Vopson says on the podcast. “This is just a possible scenario that this new piece of physics indicates. I’m not by any means saying that I found the proof that we live in a simulation. I’m just saying I found what I call a fingerprint if that makes sense.”
For the rest of us, Kneale says the simulation idea could change how we choose to view life’s events and setbacks. As he tells listeners:
“If we came to think there’s a good possibility that all of this might be an illusion, like in the ‘Matrix’ films, how might it change how we look at life and react to the things that happen to us? My hope is this simulation possibility could make us want to live larger, love harder, tell people how we feel, and stop holding back from reaching out for a richer life. This belief in the simulation also could protect us from hardship because what the heck, this all may just be a game anyway. It’s all part of the plan.”
“The Leadership Genius of Elon Musk” is available for pre-order now:
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“What’s Bugging Me” Episode #108 is on the Ricochet platform: https://ricochet.com/podcast/whats-bugging-me/life-in-the-matrix/
On Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/life-in-the-matrix/id1657007934?i=1000682568058
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