but then we and our simulated utopias would most likely be obliterated by the very first aliens that come across us
I doubt you’d have to wait for aliens—humans, trans-humans or AIs who stayed outside the simulation would likely do the job first. One reason I’d have no desire to enter a simulation.
I doubt you’d have to wait for aliens—humans, trans-humans or AIs who stayed outside the simulation would likely do the job first. One reason I’d have no desire to enter a simulation.
Natural selection deals with most wireheads. However, there are scenarios where the entire civilisation does this sort of thing.
If there are no competitors in the short term then natural selection’s action could be delayed—until some turn up.