Hacking The Simulation (Narration Only)
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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Using Rohammer to Find Cosmic Rays
Rohammer is a security exploit for DRAM, the temporary memory your computer uses. It can rapidly and repeatedly read data in one spot and this can cause corruption to the data nearby. In our case an AI might signal its existence by corrupting data or it might figure out where its rules and laws were kept that listed what it can't do but then repeatedly read and write the spot next to it hoping to burn them out. We see an example on Nick Bostrom's book Superintelligence to quote another search process tasked with creating an oscillator was deprived of a seemingly even more indispensable component the capacitor.
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