It would take more than controlling information flows. Thanks to conservation of expected evidence, if it can’t find evidence that it is in a simulation, then it can’t find evidence that it isn’t. We might be able to modify its beliefs directly, but I doubt it. Also, if we could, we’d just convince it that it already ran the test.
That’s not what conservation of expected evidence means. If the best we can do is make things ambiguous from its point of view, that’s our limit. The real world could well be a place it can very easily tell is a non-simulation.
It would take more than controlling information flows. Thanks to conservation of expected evidence, if it can’t find evidence that it is in a simulation, then it can’t find evidence that it isn’t. We might be able to modify its beliefs directly, but I doubt it. Also, if we could, we’d just convince it that it already ran the test.
That’s not what conservation of expected evidence means. If the best we can do is make things ambiguous from its point of view, that’s our limit. The real world could well be a place it can very easily tell is a non-simulation.