Simulations of long-ago ancestors..?

Imagine that you have the ability to run a simulation now. Would you want to populate it by people like you, that is, fresh people de novo and possibly people from your parents and grandparents generations -- or would you want to populate it with Egyptian peasants from 3000 B.C.? Homo habilis, maybe? How far back do you want to go?

What the simulation would be like depends entirely on the motivation for running it. That is actually sort of the point of the post. If people want to be in a certain kind of simulation, they should run simulations that conform with that.

No, I don't think so. You're engaging in magical thinking. What you -- or everyone -- believes does not change the reality.

What the people “above” us, if they exist, believe absolutely does change reality.

What Omega believes changes reality. People one-box anyway.

Who the Calvinist God has allegedly predestined determines reality. People go to church, pray, etc. anyway.

If we are “the type of species” who builds simulations that we would like to be in, we are much more likely to be a species by-and-large who inhabits simulations which we want to be in.