lavalamp comments on Pascal's wager re-examined - Less Wrong
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I have a big problem with this step. Why should (have lots of adherents) imply (is point of simulation)? Surely there will be more unskilled play-throughs of "simgod" than skilled ones. I think this number can be made arbitrarily low just by adding in all known religions...
Theologians clearly need to observe people playing a large number of games of Civilization, and record the distribution of fraction of adherents that the player has.