Simulation Theory Is Dumb

This article is dedicated to Ethan Mollick, a professor at The Wharton School, who tweeted this on 7/25/2021:

You have probably heard the argument that we might be living in a simulation, but no one asks the next obvious question: if we were, when would someone turn it off? Well, this paper decided that the answer is “soon” — either out of boredom or to save money.

The paper Mollick is talking about is called “Simulation Typology and Termination Risks,” a paper published by the Ivy League Cornell University. I’ve previously insulted academic journals as nothing more than a place where people with the right degrees on their wall circle-jerk each other — and each day I’m proven more and more right. The fact is, this paper had four authors — all four of whom are credited academics. Four professors wrote a paper where this is the conclusion:

Humanity’s location at the beginning of the 21st century could be best explained by the fact that this period is in a scientific Fermi simulation by an alien civilization or future humanity-based AGI simulating variants of its own origin, which could be called a “singularity simulation”.

If this is what academia looks like now, then Harvard should give David Icke a tenured position as a professor. Speaking of David Icke — the well-known conspiracy theorist who popularized the idea that the…