The Art of Misdirection: How to Obfuscate a Future Simulation
A future intelligence practicing security through quantum obscurity?
Over the past several years there’s been a great deal of thought, discussion, and sometimes even heated debate around the possibility of us¹ existing in a simulation.
I’ve touched on a few different possibilities myself in previous articles — it’s an interesting conjecture, after all — ranging whether some kind of simulation is our future evolutionary imperative, or how we possibly may escape such a simulation if we’re somehow trapped in it, or even the possibility of us being imprisoned in a simulation deliberately for some future crime that we don’t even know about, yet.
A common issue that arises is how we may escape such a simulation, if we are in one. Therefore, and to that end, we must investigate how we could possibly detect if we’re in one at all in the first place before we can even set our minds towards addressing the problem.
Leaving aside the possibility that such a simulation may be reprogrammable, in real time, to erase such thoughts from its inhabitants (to prevent its detection), it is very likely that other methods may be employed by the architects of the construct to prevent such a realisation from taking place.
