Elon Musk thinks we’re probably all trapped in a Matrix-like pseudo-existence.
埃隆 · 马斯克认为我们可能都被困在一个类似于矩阵的虚拟世界里。
“The universe is 13.8 billion years old, so all the civilizations that came into it had plenty of time to hone their technological know-how,” said the founder and CEO of SpaceX during a podcast appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience.
“宇宙有138亿年的历史，所以所有进入它的文明都有足够的时间来磨练他们的技术诀窍,”SpaceX 的创始人兼首席执行官在 Joe Rogan 体验的播客上说。
“If you expect any pace of improvement at all, then the games will be indistinguishable from reality, or civilization will end. “One of those two things will happen,” Musk said. “That’s why we’re most likely in the simulation, because we exist.”
“如果你期望有任何进步的步伐，那么游戏将与现实无异，或者文明将终结。马斯克说: “这两件事中的一件将会发生。”。“这就是为什么我们最有可能出现在模拟中，因为我们存在。”
“I think there are most likely many, many simulations,” he added. “You can call them reality just as well, or you can call them a multiverse.”
“我认为很可能有很多很多的模拟,”他补充说。“你也可以称之为现实，或者称之为多元宇宙。”
“The substrate on which these simulations run, whatever they are, is probably quite boring, at least compared to the simulations themselves,” Musk told Rogan. “Why would you do a simulation that is boring? You’d do a simulation that’s a lot more interesting than basic reality, “Musk said, referring to the video games and movies that humanity makes and that are a distillation of what’s interesting in life.
马斯克告诉罗根: “这些模拟运行的基板，不管它们是什么，可能都相当无聊，至少与模拟本身相比是这样。”。“你为什么要做一个无聊的模拟呢？“你会做一个比基本现实有趣得多的模拟,”马斯克说，他指的是人类制作的视频游戏和电影，它们是生活中有趣事物的精华。
The billionaire entrepreneur is far from alone in this interpretation; a number of physicists, cosmologists and philosophers find the simulation hypothesis compelling. If even one advanced alien civilization with a predilection for creating simulations has ever arisen out there, the reasoning goes, then it could theoretically pop off thousands — or perhaps even millions or billions — of “fake” universes. And it would be hard for the inhabitants of these digital realms to figure out the truth, because all the evidence they could gather would likely be planted by the creators.
这个亿万富翁企业家并不是唯一一个这样解释的人; 许多物理学家、宇宙学家和哲学家都认为这个模拟假说很有说服力。如果哪怕是一个偏爱创造模拟的先进外星文明曾经在那里出现过，推理是，那么理论上它就可能从数千个——甚至数百万乃至数十亿个——“假”宇宙中脱离出来。对于这些数字领域的居民来说，弄清真相是很困难的，因为他们所能收集到的所有证据很可能都是创造者所栽赃的。
Another video from 2016 in which Elon Musk freely admits that we live in the Matrix answers the direct question of whether mankind can live in the artificial world created by an advanced civilization:
2016年的另一个视频中，伊隆 · 马斯克坦率地承认我们生活在矩阵中，回答了人类能否生活在先进文明创造的人造世界这个直接问题:
People have asked me many times about the question of simulated reality. I think about it a lot, even when I’m taking a bath. The strongest argument that we live in simulated reality is this: Forty years ago, we had computer games based on squares and dots. Now, forty years later, we have photorealistic 3D simulations that are played by millions of people at once. And it’s getting better every year. We have a virtual, enhanced reality. If it continues like this, one day the games will be indistinguishable from reality.
人们问过我很多次关于模拟现实的问题。我想了很多，即使是在洗澡的时候。我们生活在模拟现实的最有力的论据是: 40年前，我们有基于方形和圆点的电脑游戏。现在，四十年过去了，我们有了真实的三维模拟，由数百万人同时演示。而且一年比一年好。我们有一个虚拟的，增强的现实。如果继续这样下去，总有一天奥运会将与现实无异。
Even if the improvement took a long time, if the speed of progress slowed down a lot compared to the current pace, for example a thousandth, let’s say it took us ten thousand years, which is nothing compared to evolution, so we are clearly on the way to creating a perfect simulated reality.
即使改进需要很长的时间，如果进步的速度比现在的速度慢了很多---- 例如千分之一---- 让我们说它花了我们一万年，这和进化相比算不了什么，所以我们显然正在创造一个完美的模拟现实。
The probability that we do not live in artificial reality is a billion to one.
我们不生活在人造现实中的概率是十亿分之一。
And I hope so, because if civilization stops evolving, it will probably be due to the intervention of some great calamity that will wipe out civilization. So we should probably hope that this is really a simulation. (“Because it could be restarted”) And either we create a reality that is indistinguishable from reality, or humanity ceases to exist. These are two options.
我希望如此，因为如果文明停止进化，可能是由于某种巨大的灾难的介入，它将彻底摧毁文明。所以我们或许应该希望这真的是一个模拟。(“因为它可以重新开始”)要么我们创造一个与现实无法区分的现实，要么人类停止存在。这是两个选择。
You can watch the entire Podcast here:
你可以在这里收看完整的 Podcast:
