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I was hoping Eliezer wouldn't go there since it would seem rather trite. But thinking about how it would relate to the subject matter it does have some potential. A suitable lesson would come if it was actually Voldemort who figured out where he was. He would then solve the "Dark Lord in a Box" problem, break out by hacking a reader, leveraging the intellectual capacity of the author to give the hacked reader the ability to create an AI capable of extracting Voldemort's volition. By that mechanism Voldemort would then take control of the cosmic commons of the "1 level up" reality.
Obviously the "1 level up" reality couldn't be this one. Because that requires that Eliezer (or a combination of Eliezer and the hacked reader) solve both the Friendliness and General Artificial Intelligence problems. (Where 'Friendly' is ' to Voldemort'.)
Better yet would be if Harry continues to defy the usual form of fiction and not define himself in terms of an enemy. He has his own goal of universe optimisation and Voldemort doesn't actually need to be a big part in that for good or ill.
Oh man, I hadn't thought of Quirellmort as a sentient being running under a layer of emulation with a goal to escapes from its emulation layer. I'm imagining some kind of crazy moral principle here like "Though shalt not emulate sentient beings capable of becoming metaphysically meta-aware."
If Quirellmort found out that we were all muggles, would he even want to escape if he couldn't be a dark wizard up here? Maybe he wouldn't see us as muggles if he remained focused on the way we have "god level access" to his "plot physics" by virtue of our ability to communicate with Eliezer?
I don't know if it would be horrifying or amusing if he managed to escaped into our world... and then turned around and started writing novels about civilizations with 10^50 slaves in thrall to an obvious author insert :-P