In this gem of a blog entry, Sabine Hossenfelder takes on the so-called simulation hypothesis (the idea that Reality is a digital simulation). She finds it just little bit too coincidental that such an idea would emerge now that we share a popular understanding of computer simulation.
"People today ponder the idea that reality is a computer simulation in the same way that post-Newtonian intellectuals thought of the universe as a clockwork."
"Popular culture creates hypotheses, and present culture is a collective limit to our imagination."
Based on these observations, I am expecting that proponents of the simulation hypothesis will soon be telling us that we should stop worrying about someone kicking the plug on the box running our universe. Surely Reality will have been moved into the "Cloud" by now. And before long we'll all have a new TOS to sign so they can re-implement Reality as a Web services-based subscription model.
The simulation hypothesis and other things I don't believe