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How about triggering a buffer overflow? Assuming the Turing Complete substrate doesn't have infinite memory, maybe we can break out ;)
by d2vid 14y ago
How about triggering a buffer overflow? Assuming the Turing Complete substrate doesn't have infinite memory, maybe we can break out ;)
- mikeash 14y agoJust be careful you don't overwrite the stack canary and end up getting the whole universe terminated.
- jerf 14y agoThe idea has been explored in "the literature", which in this case is a really fancy-pants way of saying "science fiction". In the general case, since we can't figure out what the consequences of a crash are, I don't think I'd recommend it, but if we can get specifics, who knows? One easily-linked example: http://lesswrong.com/lw/qk/that_alien_message/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/qk/that_alien_message/