The day I read The Simulation Argument, by Nick Bostrom, a thought popped into my mind: "if we are made of code, maybe there are ways to hack life as you would hack some random program", I started thinking privilege escalation over the simulation, buffer overflow, picking signals as if I was eavesdropping... it was an epiphany and also fun

Yeah but _you_ as a program are not able to do that. You need a coder for that, who's it going to be?

But rollbacks are a thing.

If you did find and exploit flaws in the world, you wouldn't even know it because the flaws -- and you -- would be patched and rolled back.

@Demolishun "But you can affect the simulation/reality. They have done experiments [snip]"
If this is true, this should be all over the news. Do you have a reference for these experiments?

@Demolishun yeah okay, in quantum mechanics observation may affect the experiment. That's a good start.

Now I'm interested in these "treating water good or bad" experiments. What does that even mean? Do you flip the bird at the water? And maybe we can get to "prayer works" later... that would be Nobel Prize worthy and make you rich. Not kidding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...