1 August 2006 - no reality 1

Smart: There are many computer simulations and at most one known universe, and we can’t tell them apart. So statistically, we should conclude that the universe is probably a simulation, like in The Matrix.
Weird: That’s the weirdest thing I’ve ever heard you say.
Smart: And the most useless, thanks to Decartes’ Demon.
Weird: But it does explain lost socks and quantum mechanics. Bugs!
Smart: It gets better. The ones who are simulating us can make the same argument, and it’s even stronger for them. The simplest model is that there is no real universe, only an infinite chain of simulations.
Weird: If Occam votes for that, I vote for Occam.
Poet: It doesn’t have to be infinite. Maybe every electron is a supercomputer running a universe. Which one is ours?
Weird and Smart: [simultaneously] Are you busy on Friday?