Imagine that you learn tomorrow that we're in a simulation, because scientists did a test and found a bug in the program. Perhaps you would act differently? Maybe email all your friends about it, head over to lesswrong to discuss it, whatever. These things wouldn't happen in the original.
The main distinction is the way you'd learn about the simulation, like I said in my response.
Please define the difference between "bug in the simulation" and "previously unknown law of physics".
That said, I do agree in principle. However, simulation theories are sufficiently obvious(at least to creatures that dream/build computers/etc.) that they can't count as corruption - it'd be weirder for a simulated civilization to not have them.
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