What’s outside?
2019
A question for a sufficiently advanced intelligence. The interesting move is the asking.
What’s outside the simulation?
Elon MuskLex Fridman Podcast6 May 2019
Source notes
The question he would ask a superhuman intelligence: what’s outside the simulation?
An epistemic boundary. The interesting move is the question, not an answer.
Not a description of a server room. Not a claim that he knows we are simulated.
Official Lex Fridman clip.
Nested frames. The outer one is unlabeled on purpose. Many models can fit the same sky. That is underdetermination, not a map of a server room.