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Consider a different argument.
Our world is either simulated or not.
If our world is not simulated, there's nothing we do can make it simulated. We can work towards other simulations, but that's not us.
If our world is simulated, we are already simulated and there's nothing we can do to increase our chance of being simulated because it's already so.
Knowledge of which decisions we actually make is information which we can update our worldviews on.
Acausal reasoning seems wierd, but it works in practice and dominates classical causal reasoning.
What do you mean, "works in practice"?