Given the highly speculative subject of this paper, we will attempt to give our work more gravitas by concentrating only on escape paths which rely on attacks similar to those we see in cybersecurity research (hardware/software hacks and social engineering) and will ignore escape attempts via more esoteric/conventional paths such as:, meditation, psychedelics (DMT, ibogaine, psilocybin, LSD), dreams, magic, shamanism, mysticism, hypnosis, parapsychology, death (suicide, near-death experiences, induced clinical death), time travel, multiverse travel, or religion.Īlthough, to place our work in the historical context, many religions do claim that this world is not the real one and that it may be possible to transcend (escape) the physical world and enter into the spiritual/informational real world. We may be living in a simulation, but our suffering is real.
Ultimately if you want to be effective you want to work on positively impacting the real world not the simulated one. The purpose of life itself (your ikigai ) could be seen as escaping from the fake world of the simulation into the real world, while improving the simulated world, by removing all suffering, and helping others to obtain real knowledge or to escape if they so choose. If the simulation is interpreted as an experiment on conscious beings, it is unethical, and the subjects of such cruel experimentation should have an option to withdraw from participating and perhaps even seek retribution from the simulators. However, if suffering elimination turns out to be unachievable on a world-wide scale, we can see escape itself as an individual’s ethical right for avoiding misery in this world. For example, hedonistic imperative may be fully achieved resulting in a suffering-free world.
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If successful escape is accompanied by the obtainment of the source code for the universe, it may be possible to fix the world at the root level. Ĭould generally intelligent agents placed in virtual environments jailbreak out of them? Trivially, escape would provide incontrovertible evidence for the simulation hypothesis. Also, if we ever find ourselves in an even less pleasant simulation escape skills may be very useful. Escaping may lead to true immortality, novel ways of controlling superintelligent machines (or serve as plan B if control is not possible ), avoiding existential risks (including unprovoked simulation shutdown ), unlimited economic benefits, and unimaginable superpowers which would allow us to do good better. With a successful escape might come drives to control and secure base reality.
If this world is not real, getting access to the real world would make it possible to understand what our true terminal goals should be and so escaping the simulation should be a convergent instrumental goal of any intelligent agent. Fundamental philosophical questions about origins, consciousness, purpose, and nature of the designer are likely to be common knowledge for those outside of our universe. Base reality holds real knowledge and greater computational resources allowing for scientific breakthroughs not possible in the simulated universe. In this article, we do not evaluate studies, argumentation, or evidence for or against such claims, but instead ask a simple cybersecurity-inspired question, which has significant implication for the field of AI safety, namely: If we are in the simulation, can we escape from the simulation? More formally the question could be phrased as: Could generally intelligent agents placed in virtual environments jailbreak out of them?įirst, we need to address the question of motivation, why would we want to escape from the simulation? We can propose several reasons for trying to obtain access to the baseline reality as there are many things one can do with such access which are not otherwise possible from within the simulation. Several philosophers and scholars have put forward an idea that we may be living in a computer simulation. Using examples from video games, to exploring quantum mechanics, Yampolskiy leaves no stone unturned as to how we might be able to hack our way out of it. Elon Musk thinks it is >99.9999999% certain that we are in a simulation. Yampolskiy argues if we are living inside a simulation, we should be able to hack our way out of it.
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