Twenty years ago, the #philosopher Nick #Bostrom gave us the ‘simulation argument’ where he argued that it's not only possible that we're living in a Matrix-like simulation, but that it's the most likely scenario. Bostrom's argument uses #probability theory, and it goes like this. If we assume that there's a near infinite number of possible civilizations in a near infinite universe, then it takes only one of these civilizations to be technologically advanced and willing enough to create simulate