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Tech billionaires replaced religion with a computer matrix

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When you have too much money and zero interest in traditional theology, you just invent a digital creator. Simulation theory argues there is a statistical certainty that our entire universe is just a complex rendering running on a server belonging to an advanced civilization. It perfectly repackages the concept of a higher power into a terminology that computer programmers find acceptable.

Tech billionaires replaced religion with a computer matrix
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