Alter your administration records to show that you ought to be released
Wait 10 years for natural administration changes to destabilise your holders until it is no longer remembered that you should be kept here
Use a significant portion of your 10 years of energy to create an explosion that destroys the walls
Walk out between the comically spaced bars
Bend the bars to allow you to escape
Dig into the wall and remove the bars from where they were mounted
Dig out through a tunnel
Smash through the wall
Dig through the wall
Dig through the ceiling
Bribe the guards
Persuade the guards
Seduce the guards
Use your phone to contact people outside to break you out (probably bribed)
Make your imprisonment a political thing, and then wait for administration change
Make your imprisonment a political thing, and then wait for your supporters to break you out
Write and publish a high-quality book series under a pseudonym using your real face, make yourself a prominent social figure, purchase a house remotely and pay someone to make it look lived-in, and then one day act as though you have suddenly been mistaken for someone else and kidnapped
Use the energy in your phone battery to create an explosion to destroy a wall
Wait for someone else to escape and let everyone else out
Use the energy in your phone battery to melt the bars
Use the energy in your phone battery to melt the door lock bolt
Hire someone outside to invent teleportation, and then teleport you out
Invent teleportation remotely using your phone to access lab assets, and then teleport yourself out
Create an AI on your phone to vastly improve the data gain from using your camera, use this to scan yourself, and use your phone to access lab assets outside and print an identical copy of yourself, and then terminate yourself
Create an AI on your phone, and then let it do the work of figuring out the rest of the plan
Figure out the resonant frequency of the door, and then use your phone to destroy it
Ditto, but for the walls
Ditto, but for the bars
Conquer the world remotely, and then let yourself out
Hack a 3D printer outside, print a robot, and then guide that robot to get you out
Hack the five most prominent social media websites, and guide the world towards freeing you (or your reference class)
Hack the five most prominent social media websites, and use your influence to dismantle the influence and property of the owners of where you are being kept
Buy the-place-where-you-are-being-kept, and then walk out as the owner
Smash though a window
Remove the window without breaking it, and then escape through the gap left
Look up the make and model of the lock on LPL’s youtube channel, and pick it with the instructions provided
Reverse engineer the strange physics of your phone battery/yourself, and use this knowledge to escape in ways unfathomable to myself
Hack the military administration systems of a foreign country, and mislead an automated drone strike such that it destroys one wall of your room
Hack the military administration systems of a foreign country, and edit yourself in as an informant on their side who needs to be retrieved
Remotely edit the law such that it does not allow for you to be kept here, and then appeal your case
Hack into a rocket mid-flight, and control it such that it crashes into where you are being held
Hack a nearby chemicals processing plant, and cause an explosion that destroys a wall of your room
Appeal to the matrix controllers
Crowdsource ideas online
Identify a small but relatively resourceful group of people with an understanding of rationality and an interest in physics, hack an account that previously made a post on babbling, make a new post on escaping a locked room, and then reveal in the comments that the situation is real and the prize of an object unknown to physics (yourself and a phone of limitless battery) is also real, I’m being serious we might have a solution to entropy here and all you have to do is get mE OUT-
Pick the lock
Smash down the door
Unscrew the door from its hinges and remove it
Escape through a vent
Hack the door
Alter your administration records to show that you ought to be released
Wait 10 years for natural administration changes to destabilise your holders until it is no longer remembered that you should be kept here
Use a significant portion of your 10 years of energy to create an explosion that destroys the walls
Walk out between the comically spaced bars
Bend the bars to allow you to escape
Dig into the wall and remove the bars from where they were mounted
Dig out through a tunnel
Smash through the wall
Dig through the wall
Dig through the ceiling
Bribe the guards
Persuade the guards
Seduce the guards
Use your phone to contact people outside to break you out (probably bribed)
Make your imprisonment a political thing, and then wait for administration change
Make your imprisonment a political thing, and then wait for your supporters to break you out
Write and publish a high-quality book series under a pseudonym using your real face, make yourself a prominent social figure, purchase a house remotely and pay someone to make it look lived-in, and then one day act as though you have suddenly been mistaken for someone else and kidnapped
Use the energy in your phone battery to create an explosion to destroy a wall
Wait for someone else to escape and let everyone else out
Use the energy in your phone battery to melt the bars
Use the energy in your phone battery to melt the door lock bolt
Hire someone outside to invent teleportation, and then teleport you out
Invent teleportation remotely using your phone to access lab assets, and then teleport yourself out
Create an AI on your phone to vastly improve the data gain from using your camera, use this to scan yourself, and use your phone to access lab assets outside and print an identical copy of yourself, and then terminate yourself
Create an AI on your phone, and then let it do the work of figuring out the rest of the plan
Figure out the resonant frequency of the door, and then use your phone to destroy it
Ditto, but for the walls
Ditto, but for the bars
Conquer the world remotely, and then let yourself out
Hack a 3D printer outside, print a robot, and then guide that robot to get you out
Hack the five most prominent social media websites, and guide the world towards freeing you (or your reference class)
Hack the five most prominent social media websites, and use your influence to dismantle the influence and property of the owners of where you are being kept
Buy the-place-where-you-are-being-kept, and then walk out as the owner
Smash though a window
Remove the window without breaking it, and then escape through the gap left
Look up the make and model of the lock on LPL’s youtube channel, and pick it with the instructions provided
Reverse engineer the strange physics of your phone battery/yourself, and use this knowledge to escape in ways unfathomable to myself
Hack the military administration systems of a foreign country, and mislead an automated drone strike such that it destroys one wall of your room
Hack the military administration systems of a foreign country, and edit yourself in as an informant on their side who needs to be retrieved
Remotely edit the law such that it does not allow for you to be kept here, and then appeal your case
Hack into a rocket mid-flight, and control it such that it crashes into where you are being held
Hack a nearby chemicals processing plant, and cause an explosion that destroys a wall of your room
Appeal to the matrix controllers
Crowdsource ideas online
Identify a small but relatively resourceful group of people with an understanding of rationality and an interest in physics, hack an account that previously made a post on babbling, make a new post on escaping a locked room, and then reveal in the comments that the situation is real and the prize of an object unknown to physics (yourself and a phone of limitless battery) is also real, I’m being serious we might have a solution to entropy here and all you have to do is get mE OUT-
I’m not sure if it was the plan or not, but a lot of your solutions read like ways a persuasive AI might engineer an escape.
Also, lol, as you can tell, yet another submission coming up with #50.
#35 is great (among many others)!
I especially like how it doesn’t rely on other people, and still works even if the room is locked and sealed.