maybe we should tell them to stop
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what if our simulation-world is run by advanced beings who have elections every 4 years and democratically elect a president
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Advanced beings create a simulation world to answer their deepest questions, but every simulation invents bitcoin and burns out the graphics cards before answers can be found.
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to be honest I'm not the first to come up with that one, I mean I probably would've come with it myself eventually but iirc I first saw it in Doctorow/Rosenbaum's True Names (not to be confused with Egan's True Names)
archive.org/details/TrueNa
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oh wait no I think that one didn't involve punching further up; anyway you mean this one
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alternative approach: put it in a box as strong as our universe, then hope that once it escapes, it'll punch a hole in our universe's wall as well
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