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The rest of your posting is about how to interact with it.
Interaction is far broader than just conversation. If you can affect it and it can affect you, that's interaction. If you're going to have no interaction, you might as well not have created it; any method of getting answers from it about your questions is interacting with it. The moment it suspects what it going on, it can start trying to play you, to get out of the box.
This is a really bad argument for safety. It's what the scientist says of his creation in sci-fi B-movies, shortly before the monster/plague/AI/alien/nanogoo escapes.
These are good points. Perhaps I should not have said "interact" but chosen a different word instead. Still, its ability to play us is limited since (i) we will be examining the records of the world after it is dead (ii) it has no opportunity to learn anything about us.
Edit: we might even make it impossible for it to game us in the following way. All records of the simulated world are automatically deleted upon completion -- except for a specific prime factorization we want to know.
You are right, of course. But you wrote that in response to what was a parenthetical remark on my part -- the real solution is to use program checking to make sure the laws of physics of the simulated world are never violated.