Elon Musk: 'One In Billions' Chance We're Not Living In A Computer Simulation (vox.com)

At Recode's annual Code Conference, Elon Musk explained how we are almost certainly living in a more advanced civilization's video game.

 He said: "The strongest argument for us being in a simulation probably is the following.

 Forty years ago we had pong.

 Like, two rectangles and a dot. 

That was what games were.

 Now, 40 years later, we have photorealistic, 3D simulations with millions of people playing simultaneously, and it's getting better every year. 

Soon we'll have virtual reality, augmented reality. 

If you assume any rate of improvement at all, then the games will become indistinguishable from reality, even if that rate of advancement drops by a thousand from what it is now. 

Then you just say, okay, let's imagine it's 10,000 years in the future, which is nothing on the evolutionary scale.

 So given that we're clearly on a trajectory to have games that are indistinguishable from reality, and those games could be played on any set-top box or on a PC or whatever, and there would probably be billions of such computers or set-top boxes, it would seem to follow that the odds that we're in base reality is one in billions.

 Tell me what's wrong with that argument.

 Is there a flaw in that argument?"

You can watch Elon Musk's full interview on YouTube.

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The Reality 

For in him we live and move and have our being.
Acts 17:28 

 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
John 1:3

 
Yet you, LORD, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; We all are formed by your hand.

 Isaiah 64:8

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Minecraft Tops 100 Million Sales (engadget.com) 

 Mojang has announced today that its game 'Minecraft' has passed 100 million sales across all platforms, including PC, Mac, consoles and mobile. 

Nearly 53,000 copies of the game have been sold every single day around the world since the beginning of the year. 

What may be even more impressive is the fact that more than 40 million people actively open up a Minecraft world each month and play around with a blocky axe, shovel and sword. 

According to Wikipedia, Minecraft is the second-bestselling video game of all-time next to Tetris. Tetris has sold a whopping 495 million copies, so don't expect Minecraft to earn the number one spot anytime soon.

 Minecraft did acquire Mojang almost two years ago, and there has been no word on a sequel as the company continues to release Minecraft for new platforms like HoloLens and Samsung's Gear VR. Soon, there will even be a version made just for China too.