Was the Universe Hacked?

Gerald R. Baron
8 min readMar 27, 2021
Photo by Florian Olivo on Unsplash. Are we living in a simulation? Was the good world a superintelligence created hacked? And does this idea provide any insight into the nature of good and evil?

I once worked with a young, brilliant computer programmer. He looked at the IBM System 34 computer that contained several years of his programming genius and commented, “There’s a cathedral in there.”

I understood what he meant although I could not write a line of code even if all the riches of the world were promised. It was a thing of beauty. It functioned as it was intended. It was an expression of his vision…

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Gerald R. Baron

Dawdling at the intersection of faith, science, philosophy and theology.