Everything you currently experience is relative to your environment. If all you know is this environment, you don’t really know if there’s something else beyond it. You’re a prisoner or your brain and how it perceives things. 

Now imagine this is a game (a rudimentary simulation) and you don’t know what actual forces control you. You’d have no way of knowing apart from discovering some glitch that hinted at this being a simulation. 

 Ok imagine you are the character and the game teleports you or creates a thousand bricks of gold in front of view: you broke all laws of physics. So I think in-game PoW might be overrated  

 The game is obviously constrained by some variables and no one is cheating yet. Or maybe they have but we’re playing a different instance and are not aware of it 

 Scary 😅 

 Ok so if PoW cannot be simulated what does it mean for people inside the simulation ? If they don't see the difference then it _can_ be simulated... Right ? 

 Confusing.