The notion that we live as characters in someone else’s video game is irresistible to many, even outside of science fiction bookshelves. Googling the term “simulation hypothesis” returns numerous ...

Microsoft researchers and Xbox staffers have created a generative AI model that can simulate a playable video game. The prototype program, called "Muse," can churn out the in-game visuals and ...

Simulation games offer new perspectives. They allow you to further enjoy your hobbies, or to see what life would be like if you had taken on a different profession. There are a ton of great options ...

On a warm afternoon last fall, Steven Caron, a technical artist at the video-game company Quixel, stood at the edge of a redwood grove in the Oakland Hills. “Cross your eyes, kind of blur your eyes, ...

Epic Games Publishing and developer Spiral House will release PC Building Simulator 2 for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series on February 26, the companies announced.

But someone asked him a question about my talk, specifically regarding the simulation hypothesis—the suggestion that we live in a computer generated reality. He claimed that simulation arguments, like ...

I was invited by the American Humanist Association to present the arguments of my paper “Natural Evil and the Simulation Hypothesis” at the national conference this past weekend. It was fun: I met a ...

The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer—has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it rest ...