>>12192847Super low IQ take. Your small brain can only imagine a context in which people much like us, 2020 humans, but slightly more advanced, make a simulation that's close to their own resulting in our simulation. In our universe or simulation, any number of beings may exist for trillions of years, possibly creating some huge number of civilizations that will create some huge number of simulations. We already create simulations all the time, Dwarf Fortress is a simulation, we simulate simple physics problems without having to simulate 1:1 every interaction at the atomic level, it's useful to us to create these sims as rough approximations. Some other incomprehensible being outside our sim may have created this for contexts and reasons that are impossible to understand. In your tiny brain, your context is so limited you actually think that the simulation creator is specifically made an entire universe to observe your brain in 2020.
Also "such lengths" is another complete miss on context. This simulation could be as trivial as defining a few parameters like the speed of light and law of conservation of energy, complexity can easily be generated from simplicity and we already demonstrate that all the time.
You are correct though that it doesn't matter if there's context outside of our simulation, even if we reverse engineer the source code.
