Re:How to Hack the Simulation?
by RealityVoid on Sunday November 13, 2022 @01:15PM
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Right,but a critical difference is that an AI could have access to the outside world information and a pretty good model of how things work whereas we can't even tell if we are in a simulation. Without this information the jailbreak is impossible. Even worse, I believe that without sim master intervention, the information is _unknowable_.
And all this is assuming even that the simulation works on pretty primitive hw, it's possible that the sim arch is far more complex and simply unbreakable. Or with complex fault handling that simply unrolls the sim if breaks happen.
Anyways, I believe the whole premise of simulation to be pointless, except maybe as a exercise of imagination.
I don't believe we are in a simulation, otherwise simulating the smallest units in our universe would not be so computationally expensive. I can't help but chuckle at the prospect of the poor simmaster trying to figure out the processing load spikes the moment the CERN guys run their particle accelerator collisions.
The main difference is that we usually think of vulnerabilities in our software as things that are exploited from the outside. But it seems plausible to me that, if a part of the software was an AI that is intelligent enough to understand the difference between its world and ours, it could find the same sorts of vulnerabilities, and learn to exploit them.