> Absolutely. If we are in a simulation, then I want our species to [...] bootstrap into becoming "real" Why? Undoubtedly the world outside our own has its own

> Absolutely. If we are in a simulation, then I want our species to [...] bootstrap into becoming "real" Why? Undoubtedly the world outside our own has its own problems, all of which are possibly utterly alien to us. > or finding out how far the turtles go from the developer's world. To what end? Why is the top-most reality more valuable? If it is merely a matter of having more to explore, well, there's still plenty of this universe left. > If it is a simulation, then I want to alter the damn rules to eliminate the scarcity we currently labor under. Fair enough, but if there's a way to do that it hardly matters if we're in a simulation or not. Any exploit we pull off may as well just be some quirk of physics from our perspective.