Peterdjones comments on Dennett's "Consciousness Explained": Prelude - Less Wrong
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Assuming the simulation is runnign in our universe. However, the Simulators could be fooling the Brains aout the size of the universe. Maybe what the Brains think the universe is, is a tiny corner of theirs. Equally, they could be fooling the Brains about the capactities of computers, even the fundamental of computer science.
See, scepticism is a Universal Solvent [*]. Once you accept it all bets are off.
[*] D. C.Dennett.