RE: Family? (Simulations, Chapter 7)

Did he just use social engineering to hack the simulation's security protocol?

Cool.

This all seems a bit strange though... Sophie asked him not to resist in order to spare his suffering. This means one of two things: Sophie is aware that she could fail and wants an easier path to eliminating Finn-- or she empathises with him and genuinely does not want to cause him any more pain than necessary. But if Sophie is just a program meant to protect the simulation, why would she be capable of feeling empathy?

The interesting thing about that is, regardless of why she initially ceased, the reason for that seems separate from the reason she eventually desisted. It appears the only reason for that was his convincing her that she could be damaging the simulation herself.

But I don't know the whole story yet...