# Skeptical Hypotheses

Originally published: 2013-04-30
Canonical URL: /2013/Apr/skeptical-hypotheses/

"I think Popper said something about the power of scientific reasoning: that our hypotheses can die instead of us."

"Neat trick, isn't it?"

"Except according to the third horn of the [simulation argument](http://www.simulation-argument.com/), _we are_ someone's hypothesis!"