Andrej Karpathy

Like, for example, in the book Contact, Carl Sagan, there's a message for any civilization in digits,

in the expansion of Pi in base 11 eventually, which is kind of an interesting thought.

Maybe we're supposed to be giving a message to our creator.

Maybe we're supposed to somehow create some kind of a quantum mechanical system that alerts them to our intelligent presence here.

Because if you think about it from their perspective, it's just say like quantum field theory, massive like cellular automaton like thing.

And like, how do you even notice that we exist?

You might not even be able to pick us up in that simulation.

And so how do you prove that you exist, that you're intelligent and that you're part of the universe?

Yeah, the puzzle is basically alerting the creator that we exist.

Or maybe the puzzle is just to break out of the system and just stick it to the creator in some way.

Basically, if you're playing a video game, you can somehow find an exploit and find a way to execute on the host machine in the arbitrary code.

For example, I believe someone got a game of Mario to play Pong just by exploiting it and then...

basically writing code and being able to execute arbitrary code in the game.

And so maybe that's the puzzle, is that we should find a way to exploit it.

So I think some of these synthetic AIs will eventually find the universe to be some kind of a puzzle and then solve it in some way.

And that's kind of like the end game somehow.

Yes.

Yeah, I think so.

Is that what physics is essentially?

I think it's possible that physics has exploits and we should be trying to find them.