Another way to think of it. Consider breaking out of Minecraft. Can you do it?
Maybe. There are certainly ways to crash it today. But now let's go through some cycles of fixing those crashes, and we'll run it on a system that can handle the resource usage even if it slows down in the external reality's terms quite a bit. And we'll ignore the slash commands and just stick to the world interactions you can make.
After that, can you forcefully break out of it from the inside?
No.
It is not obligatory for systems to include escape hatches. We're just not great at building complex systems without them. But there's no reason they are necessarily present in all systems.
Another brain bender covering the same idea in a different direction: The current reigning candidate for BB(6) runs an incomprehensible amount of computation [1]. Yet, did it at any point "break out" into our world? Nope. Nor do any of the higher ones. They're completely sealed in their mathematical world, which is fortunate since any of them would sweep aside our entire universe without noticing.
Maybe. There are certainly ways to crash it today. But now let's go through some cycles of fixing those crashes, and we'll run it on a system that can handle the resource usage even if it slows down in the external reality's terms quite a bit. And we'll ignore the slash commands and just stick to the world interactions you can make.
After that, can you forcefully break out of it from the inside?
No.
It is not obligatory for systems to include escape hatches. We're just not great at building complex systems without them. But there's no reason they are necessarily present in all systems.
Another brain bender covering the same idea in a different direction: The current reigning candidate for BB(6) runs an incomprehensible amount of computation [1]. Yet, did it at any point "break out" into our world? Nope. Nor do any of the higher ones. They're completely sealed in their mathematical world, which is fortunate since any of them would sweep aside our entire universe without noticing.
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