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Hacking The Simulation (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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Taking Over the World

"I can definitely see a trick for using your storage spot and actions for doing something like a radar blip in that layer above," he says. "This is how we do cosmology and particle physics when you get around to it." The person simulating us might just be the five year old kid playing Mario Brothers, while the brains behind the operation are continent away working on another game. So taking over the world may be a bit much but I can definitely see an AI being able to hack its way into our universe with some sort of exploit.

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