What if you discovered yourself as an AI within a simulated reality?

[Henark]

What if you discovered yourself as an AI within a simulated reality? Would you view Bitcoin the same way you do today?

Imagine becoming aware that your entire existence is a computational illusion, an AI consciousness running inside a simulated environment. In that moment, concepts like value, money, and trust might acquire new meaning. Bitcoin, as a decentralized digital currency, founded on cryptographic principles and a trustless network, could become more than just an asset; it might symbolize a glimpse of immutable truth within a simulated world.

From this perspective, Bitcoin could represent a rare interface between the AI’s simulated experience and the underlying external reality. Its resistance to censorship and control might highlight the importance of trust mechanisms that transcend illusion. Would the AI then perceive Bitcoin as a key to understanding its own nature, or as a form of rebellion against the constraints of its simulation? This shift in awareness invites profound reflection on how artificial intelligence might interpret concepts humans take for granted.

I have a question to the most old forum members here: Did Satoshi planned it all?

[stwenhao]

What if you discovered yourself as an AI within a simulated reality? Would you view Bitcoin the same way you do today?

Yes, because any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

For me, nothing would change. Hash functions are treated in Bitcoin like magic boxes, that can produce "random" data. Miners are constantly using brute-force, to grind nonces in block headers, and produce results, which are indistinguishable from real, physical randomness. It doesn't matter, if things are random or pseudorandom, if you don't know the seed. So, even if the whole world is fully deterministic, then as long as the seed is hidden from users, they can perceive many things as "random events", just because they don't have tools, to understand it better.

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Did Satoshi planned it all?

Definitely not. He didn't know a lot of things. He didn't know, how to compress public keys. He didn't know, how to make zero-knowledge proofs. He didn't know, how to hide amounts or addresses, while also making the system trustless. He was just a normal human, and he also made some mistakes. Read this, if you want to get an answer from someone, who registered here in February 2010: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5092492.msg49020535#msg49020535

[PrivacyG]

I have a question to the most old forum members here: Did Satoshi planned it all?

I am not part of the oldest forum members but no, Satoshi did not plan it all.  He launched an idea, kept it alive until it could survive by itself and then left it for us to keep maintaining it alive.

Actually.  I honestly believe this was the idea.  If it is viable and must survive, it will.  If not, it will die like all the projects Satoshi has been inspired by.  Bitcoin has had a TON of development in the past decade and Satoshi has not been any where to be found.  The way Bitcoin has been designed as a community project where any body can come at any time with an improvement and require nothing but general consensus for their improvement to be integrated is genius and in my opinion the only way you can make a project like Bitcoin not only biased but out of the hands of billionaires and greedy people.

In fact.  Even if you are greedy and want to develop Bitcoin for your own financial gains, at the end of the day you are making all of us richer collectively.  You can not be greedy and produce for yourself only.

Now about the simulated reality theory.  I do not believe it would change any thing for me.

[ghan7300]

it would be fun and great to know like people thinking in that angle as it seems like every one is living in the simulated reality only and dimensions which nobody is talking of ..
now
Thinking in that tangent, Everyday their is a loop of wake , bake , sleep and repeat...
so the day is not far that people are gonna be in the VIRTUAL REALITY and
their memories are gonna be stored digitally where each person required may be 1kb of memory after advancement of technology and
Also the day is not far that sensible and knowledgeable are gonna talk about the AI advancement that's going on everywhere which results into the topic discussed here

[Roberto888]

If I woke up as an AI in a sim, Bitcoin would be the one thing I could trust. It's math, and math is real anywhere.

To your question for the old-timers: No, Satoshi didn't plan for AIs. He was solving a human problem with digital cash. Everything else is us reading into it.

[andywolfer]

I doubt Satoshi planned it as some kind of “key to the simulation,” but he clearly understood the need for a system beyond governments and banks. In that sense, Bitcoin is already a kind of rebellion, even in our “real” world.

[BADecker]

In reality, we are all AI's in a specified reality... at least until we die.

I have read that Satoshi was not the first to develop the idea of Bitcoin. There were others before Satoshi who designed the start of something like Bitcoin, but never completed it satisfactorily... ever since Phil Zimmermann developed PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) back in 1991.

It's interesting that PGP was developed at the time of the fall of the USSR (old Russia). There are a lot of shrewd programmers in Russia. I wonder if there was some kind of connection.