RE: Steem Basic Income Giveaway (Anyone out there?...)
You can't currently prove or disprove it. But it makes a lot more sense than anything else. There are two things in favor of it:
The double slit experiment
In physics’ famous double-slit experiment, electrons are fired at a photosensitive screen through slits in a copper plate, usually producing an interference pattern that indicates wavelike behavior. But when the same experiment is conducted under observation, electrons behave like particles, not waves, and there’s no interference pattern. Some have taken this to mean our simulation is conserving its resources and rendering certain things only when it knows we’re looking at them.
Pure logic
In an influential paper that laid out the theory, the Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom showed that at least one of three possibilities is true: 1) All human-like civilizations in the universe go extinct before they develop the technological capacity to create simulated realities; 2) if any civilizations do reach this phase of technological maturity, none of them will bother to run simulations; or 3) advanced civilizations would have the ability to create many, many simulations, and that means there are far more simulated worlds than non-simulated ones.
Yes... I've seen most of those arguments... I think that they all still assume a bit and there isn't a clear logical step. The physics one is less convincing to me (it is also an old and known result), from the point of view of someone who studied Theoretical Physics, it looks to be a misunderstanding of the paper.
However... all of that aside, there isn't anything to doesn't say that it could be... just no conclusive hints that it is!