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For two decades, scientists have seriously considered whether we’re living in a simulated universe. A computer scientist at the University of Louisville explores ways that humans could try to hack our ...

Miriam Frankel notes that in order to potentially escape reality as a simulation, we could try attracting attention “beyond the program”, yet “whoever is running the simulation may not want us to ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: University of Louisville computer scientist Roman Yampolskiy explores this very question in a detailed post outlining how to possibly hack our way ...

The red pill or the blue pill—the famous question that frames the entirety of The Matrix. In the 1999 film, a surprisingly resolute Neo takes the red pill and decides to “see how far down the rabbit ...