I think the former is probably true, and the later is definitely true. It's not the reader's responsibility to completely rework a thought experiment so that it is intelligible. The distinction between "this is how the situation is" and actually being in the situation.
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The first two require far less computational power than simming 3^^^3 people. You need to also comprehend the hardware which will be unimaginably huge. You need to already know the output of the program.
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And there is no way you can know what you-after-1000-years-of-convincing is like or what they would choose.
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