Martin Bauer

@martinmbauer · Mar 21, 2026

The computer scientist understands how closely simulations can resemble everyday reality, the physicist understands that the Universe, on closer inspection, does not

Elon Musk@elonmusk· Mar 21, 2026

I had dinner once with a top physicist and a top computer scientist and asked what they thought the probability was that we were in a simulation. They answered simultaneously at 0% and 100% respectively. It was like a double-slit experiment, but with humans.

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

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11:45 AM · March 21, 2026 · 70.2K views

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