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Tech Billionaires Convinced We Live in the Matrix Are Secretly Fund Scientists to Break Us Out of It


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Elon Musk

"I've had so many simulation discussions it's crazy," Elon Musk told a tech industry conference.

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Some of the world's richest and most powerful people are convinced that we are living in a computer simulation. And now they're trying to do something about it.

At least two of Silicon Valley's tech billionaires are pouring money into efforts to break humans out of the simulation that they believe that it is living in, according to a new report. It isn't clear what form that work is taking.

From The Independent
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