They Never Named Them: The 2016 Admission That Two Silicon Valley Billionaires Paid Scientists to Hack Us Out of the Simulation

In October 2016, a New Yorker profile of Sam Altman dropped one buried line: two unnamed Silicon Valley billionaires had secretly hired scientists to break humanity out of a computer simulation. A decade later — no names, no papers, no follow-up. We dug into what we actually know.