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Here is a second Simulation Trilemma.
If we are living in a simulation, at least one of the following is true:
1) we are running on a computer with unbounded computational resources, or
2) we will not launch more than one simulation similar to our world, or
3) the simulation we are in will terminate shortly after we launch our own simulations.
Here 'short' is on the order of the period between the era we start the simulation at and when the simulation reaches our stage.
Why would us launching a simulation use more processing power? It seems more likely that the universe does a set amount of information processing and all we are doing is manipulating that in constructive ways. Running a computer doesn't process more information than the wind blowing against a tree does; in fact, it processes far less.