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We can expect the laws of physics to be relatively stable, simulation or no, due to anthropic reasoning. If we lived in a universe where the laws of physics were not stable (on a timescale short enough for us to notice), it would be very difficult for intelligent life to form.
Here stability refers to numerical stability, i.e., whether or not minor errors in computation accumulate over time and cause the results to go wildly astray or do small random errors cancel out or at least not blow up.