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If the universe we're living in is a work of art or a game, it's made for minds with much greater processing power than we've got. It isn't obvious that they'd be satisfied with something as crude as a video game.
How about a video game where you attempt to control a pre-singularity global civilization by directly playing a few thousand randomly selected humans simultaneously, while not letting this fact be noticed by the NPCs?
It's interesting to wonder what sort of games post-humans might play, though I hope it won't be anything quite that ethically objectionable.
Or, from the perspective of a pre-post-human, quite that dull. If I am going to play that kind of sim I'm going to pick the 'elves' faction.
Considering that there exist fork-lift simulation games, I hesitate to claim that anything is too dull to be made.
You're serious? That scares me.
I think it was originally meant for training, but yes. People play it. As a game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIVFjtZzDr8
It could be that it was the elves who picked the 'humans' faction.