accept as a premise that games are less fulfilling if you beat them using a cheat code. stronger claim: they aren’t worth playing at all if you use a cheat code.

now, if life is a game and if AGI is a cheat code, then life’s not worth playing with AGI. if this is wrong, which premise is wrong and why?

Design and software at Apple. Also into AI, philosophy of mind, ethics.

A cheat code can only be introduced from outside. 

As long as we fall within laws of physics we are not cheating.

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Well, seems to me that cheat codes are in the source code of the game, no?