We are living in a simulation… and Korea is at the center!
It's a perfect script: North Korea has nukes, South Korea wants them, and both sit at the nexus of China, Russia, Japan, and the US.
You sit in a bar in Seoul, lift your beer and look at the two inches of head that the greenhorn server left on your lager. You drink your way through the froth and get to the amber heaven. Your phone buzzes, you glance down and read a breaking news alert: “Suspected North Korean nuclear test”. Last week it was ROKUS training exercises, a North Korean missile hurled over Japan, and a U.S. aircraft carrier heading to the Korean Peninsula. Another predictable escalation that almost seems too well timed and scripted. You return to your beer and notice two inches of foam once again bury your lager??? You look back at your phone, the nuclear test and your beer… is it just deja-vu?
Corny Matrix introductory narratives aside, what if we are living in a simulation? Could Korea be at the center of that simulation?
Nick Bostrom’s simulation hypothesis—first proposed in 2003—argues that one of three possibilities must be true:
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