One could of course simply stop simulating people accurately enough for them to become ‘real’ when they would otherwise undergo suffering. You could even put them back into the simulation afterwards.
Alternately, one could use a memory hacking tool and maximize the happiness value of a large number of simulated people, possibly without changing their behavior at all.
And to your last question: I would try to cause the universe-as-it-is-known to become a self-modifying general intelligence in the ‘real’ (or simulated-1) world.
One could of course simply stop simulating people accurately enough for them to become ‘real’ when they would otherwise undergo suffering. You could even put them back into the simulation afterwards.
Alternately, one could use a memory hacking tool and maximize the happiness value of a large number of simulated people, possibly without changing their behavior at all.
And to your last question: I would try to cause the universe-as-it-is-known to become a self-modifying general intelligence in the ‘real’ (or simulated-1) world.