If Reality is a Computer Simulation — What Happens if I Hack it?

Shelly Fagan
Ascent Publication
Published in
7 min readApr 2, 2019

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I set out to hack the computer simulation that controls our reality. Spoiler alert, it went much better than I anticipated. Yes, you can try it, too.

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In 2003, Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom proposed we may be existing in a virtual reality orchestrated by our descendants who wanted to recreate their ancestors. He suggested that if technology advanced to…

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Shelly Fagan
Ascent Publication

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