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Just a few question for this proposal:
Wouldn't the infinitely stacking simulations lag and further increase the costs to support the simulation in the level below it.?
Is it more likely that, if we are in a simulation, we are "close" to "basement level" rather than far out in an infinitely stacking simulation because the basement level will find it too costly to run an infinitely stacking simulation?
I estimate this particular proposal to be very low. We might just be the by-product of, or one of many civilizations of, a simulation. Humanity and its time of existence might just be a blip on the way to the real reason of the simulation – a civilization that will exist billions of years from now. In other words, perhaps we are merely the extras in a movie in which the audience have come to watch the stars.