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The top simulator has N operations to execute before his free enthalpy basin is empty.
Every level down, this number is smaller. Before long, there is impossible to create a nontrivial simulation inside the current. This is the bottom one.
This simulation tower is just a great way to squander all the free enthalpy you have. Is the top simulation master that stupid?
I doubt it.
In that sense, there's actually a significant risk to the singularity. Why should the simulation master (I usually facetiously use the phrase "our overlords" when referring to this entity) let us ever run a simulation that is likely to result in an infinitely nested simulation? Maybe that's why the LHC keeps blowing up.