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On the subject of programs embedded within programs, could you not say that even imagination, writing and reading, the making and watching of movies and all other similar imaginitive, storytelling arts lead to/are acts of simulation, and increase the probability of said universe?
Have you ever read Heinlein's novel "The Number of the Beast"? The main characters invent a device for traveling between universes, and when they use it, they end up in the worlds of their favorite sci-fi novels. They end up concluding that universes are created by the act of imagining them, and that there must be a world in which they themselves are fictional characters thought up by some author.
I should point out here that (although I haven't read it) Lazarus Long is one of the book's characters, making it possibly an early episode in the Crossover if the latter were real.