It would be an interesting fact, and I’d want to study the hell out of it, but it doesn’t really change anything if nothing can be done about it.

I’d give the sky the finger and then spend too much time wondering what perspective we’re even being viewed from.

I’d also probably start a diary, except every entry would be: “Fuck you people for creating a world like this. Do you enjoy the suffering of countless people? Turns out God really is a prick.”

I think a lot of unhappy people would exit the simulation… :)

Eh. I’m still driven by pleasure and pain, so nothing really changes.

understand the rules and do any side quest that i encounter

Fuzzing inputs until I find a buffer overflow.

But in the end it doesn’t even matter

Try to access the help or stats menu.

It wouldn’t change anything because this is the reality we have. I wouldn’t suddenly become immoral because there are still consequences and even if some people or even everyone but me is not real, they will still react as though they have emotions. If I hurt my wife, she would still cry. If I did something bad enough, she might divorce me. Take half my stuff. Lose some access to my kids. Those are all real consequences even if the people are simulated.

Maybe I’d be less concerned for people not immediately around me because any good simulation wouldn’t actually sim everything out of range, so there wouldn’t e.g. be Palestinians starving to death if no one “real” was there.

I suppose it would re-open the question of existence beyond death, but I don’t think I would ultimately come to a different conclusion—there is no reason to think this experience would continue past my own death, and if I were memory-wiped and re-inserted it wouldn’t really be the same me anyway, right?

If it were matrix-style there is a reality out there to experience if I can leave the simulation, I’d have some hard thinking to do about whether that would be likely to be a better existence than the one I’m having here.

Find the command to open the console. Issue su -. Try to guess the password.

Start randomly jumping in the air and see if I can grab any unseen treats.

Unless there is additional context like how to communicate with the outside world there’s not really reason to change anything. Even if the life I love and the bonds I’ve created are “fake” it doesn’t mean they’re not worthwhile.

But if it’s something like the controllers of the simulation are actively making things worse or refusing to improve things then that’s different.

Nothing except believing that there was a creation force that created me.

Make coffee.

Have you heard of Roko’s Basilisk? Basically, if we were in a simulation, it’s best not to acknowledge it