According to simulation hypothesis, we all live in (computer?) simulated reality. Or at least I live, who knows if you are bots.
Anyways, would it be somehow possible to troll our creator? I was thinking for example doing something that would require more computing power to run this simulation and thus forcing the creator to invest in better and more costly equipment. Any ideas?
I think it’s time to shut down the dr-zippermeyer subroutine.
I’m reminded of the cartoon showing two rats in a cage. One is leaning on a lever. “Boy,” he tells the other one, “have I got THIS guy trained. Every time I push this lever, he feeds me!”
It might be difficulter to fool “God” than it seems.
Only if the creator programmed us to do trolling. And then how would it be trolled by something that it set up ahead of time?
World wide universal arson might do it.
Have children, lots and lots of children.
Everyone on Earth simultaneously pats our heads while rubbing our tummies.
I really like this idea. We can assume the creator of simulation have some sort of purpose for everything. If most of the people set their houses on fire with no apparent reason whatsoever it would be so unexpected event that it would surely ruin the creators plans. And I’m sure there is some sort of undo function in simulation so no real harm would be done.
Truly interesting idea indeed. I wonder if it would be possible to convince everybody to take part in this experiment.
Observe a bunch of sub-atomic particles to waste CPU power! Or go to a very remote part of earth where you’re the only human around for miles.
Some simulation theories incorporate the quantum mechanics with the idea things are only simulated if they are being observed to save on CPU power.
I have heard about this. It is quite ingenious way to explain quantum oddities, isn’t it? Like how video games save CPU power by drawing only what is in front of the character, not behind him.
So mass producing these double slit mechanisms that can be used to collapse wave function would be the first step. On long run, we could even start to train monkeys to observe these, effectively multiplying observers of wave function collapse.
Are monkeys conscious enough to cause wave function to collapse? I’m sure they are, at least the ones who can use sign language and drive those little scooters.
If I had written Matrix, Neo would have encouraged people to do something like this. It would have been much better movie.
PS. If I will get “accidentally” hit by a meteorite in near future, please write something nice on this In memory thread. Something like “he sacrificed himself in the quest to better understand our reality”.
Or we could try this, and see if it turns out as expected.
That was really realistic and well thought description. 
But I must disagree it would be impossible to cause some major effects to the Earth this way.
Sure, if people would just jump like the way it was described there nothing happens. But how about this: before the jump, everyone has an access to a free bouffet table. Pizzas, hamburgers, cheese cakes. It is reasonable to think additional weight would change the result drastically.
We could also train all the animals capable of being trained to jump, to jump with us. That ought to add some megatonnage.