It only would matter if we had any reason at all to think that the "gods" of the simulation might intervene in it, and we don't
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All the "simulation argument" says in its base form is there's probably deeper level "hardware" that our universal "software" runs on
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People take it to mean that someone is intentionally specifically simulating us, that humans are the purpose of this software
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Which... is just the same argument we've had for centuries about whether God or gods exist only with different buzzwords
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It's literally the exact same argument. The "software" stuff is just extra words, what Occam called "multiplying entities"
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If the universe is a computer we're much more likely to be trash processes running in unallocated space than anything else
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We ought to worry about getting suddenly wiped clean to make way for a useful application
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Seriously though the strong form of the simulation argument is anthropocentrism - we just can't imagine we're an accident
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A God-computer powerful enough to create us on purpose is also powerful enough to let us evolve by mistake for no reason
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The latter is much harder for us to imagine but there's probably infinitely more ways for that to happen
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"We're being simulated to mimic real physics" is just a hipster version of "God put the fossils there to test us"
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