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How to hack the simulation?

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Re: How to hack the simulation?

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This is a pretty interesting idea that I hadn't thought of. Presumably this means that things like what happened in The Matrix would be possible: people could give themselves the ability to defy gravity and fly, create on-demand barriers to stop projectiles, and in general warp space and time as desired. Essentially, "magic" would be real.

I wonder, though, if we might catastrophically "break" physics in some ways someday, but instead of seeing that as evidence that we're in a simulation (that we have managed to hack), we might believe that our understanding of fundamental physics is just flawed.

Re: How to hack the simulation?

#7
Quintillionaires of the future may pay for elaborate escape rooms wherein the entire universe is simulated.

I still think if this is all just a simulation, it's some type of archeological study.

Re: How to hack the simulation?

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Supposing that we can, this seems like a plausible explanation for the Fermi Paradox.

What, you think the simulators didn't want to pay for Simulator Pro and instead stuck with the one-civilization free tier?

Or maybe this is just a CI test run isolated environment.

> Test run #896643 for commit hash... > Comment: Altering initial seed value for Sol, trying to fix issue where intelligent life fails to maintain stable planetary environment.

Re: How to hack the simulation?

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> Many researchers have conjectured that the humankind is simulated along with the rest of the physical universe – a Simulation Hypothesis

I would rather say many philosophers or even many stoned college kids instead of many researchers.

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