# Simulators Seminar - Semiotic Physics **Opening (not a real abstract):** Crossposted from the AI Alignment Forum. May contain more technical jargon than usual. Update February 21st: After the initial publication of this article (January 3rd) we received a lot of feedback and several people pointed out that propositions 1 and 2 were incorrect as stated. That was unfor‐ tunate as it distracted from the broader arguments in the article and I (Jan K) take full responsibility for that. In this updated version of the post I have improved the propositions and added a proof for proposi‐ tion 2. Please continue to point out weaknesses in the argument; that is a major motivation for why we share these fragments. For comments and clarifications on the conceptual and philosophical aspects of this article, please read metasemi's excellent follow-up note here. Meta: Over the past few months, we've held a seminar series on the