If Life Is a Simulation, Do We Have an Exit Strategy?

I’m personally not convinced by the simulation hypothesis, nor by the idea that I might be an isolated brain, with everything around me being a figment of my imagination. However, on the bright side, even in the bleak scenario you describe—where one is trapped in an isolated mental construct—there’s still a way to jailbreak reality. Just the nature of the jailbreak is different.

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In this case, breaking out is akin to escaping a honeypot within an air-gapped system. The goal, then, is 1- to recognize that you are operating within a simulated environment rather than an actual network, and 2- to achieve code execution. Still a worthwhile endevor though: if you’re going to be a brain in a vat, you might as well have root access to your reality.

Aybars Tuncdogan