On hacking
Mar. 15th, 2012 10:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
davvIf someone manages to hack reality, I imagine it would look like this. You'd have a lot of very weird, seemingly random actions with no effects whatsoever, then boom!
(Though if you want to think about it, we don't know what really constitutes "hacking" as far as reality's concerned. Since we have no ideal concept of how it should behave, we can't say that this action is legitimate use of the universe's, err, interface, while that action is hacking. But I think anything that would let the person bypass any constraint would count. In the hack above, the player can put any instruction in RAM, and the game's running on a general-purpose computer.)
(Though if you want to think about it, we don't know what really constitutes "hacking" as far as reality's concerned. Since we have no ideal concept of how it should behave, we can't say that this action is legitimate use of the universe's, err, interface, while that action is hacking. But I think anything that would let the person bypass any constraint would count. In the hack above, the player can put any instruction in RAM, and the game's running on a general-purpose computer.)