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> I would not want to be within the lightcone

If someone were to find an exploit to run arbitrary code using the computational ultrastructure of the universe, I wouldn't be too sure if in-game restrictions could keep us safe, though!

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I would be less concerned with them succeeding and more with them failing and crashing the local shard

Let’s hope there are backups.

It’s ok, when it crashes it reboots and runs the same way from the beginning, so it would be like nothing even happened.

Ah yes, that old reliable determinism will save the day.

The only problem is that it also replays the part which caused the universe to crash.

So the universe is a Docker container?

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