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Comment author: James_Miller 25 October 2012 11:20:32PM 3 points [-]

The simulators are much like us, or at least are our post-human descendants.

No, they probably have a much greater desire to run simulations than we do or ever will.

Comment author: patrickscottshields 27 October 2012 04:04:24AM 2 points [-]

Or maybe just greater means. I imagine many humans would run universe-scale simulations, if they had the means.