gwern comments on 2014 Survey Results - Less Wrong
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A simulation is still a naturalistic non-supernatural thing, and it would just mean we see less of the universe than we thought we do. The question was, after all:
See my answer to hairyfigment. Does that help?
I think you're looking at it backward. You are trying to understand what the implications of a survey response are. This is the explanation.
Your philosophical objection to the logic behind the explanation doesn't make it not the explanation.