Dr. André Frank Schnabel

An existential analogy for you. This screenshot is of a PDP-11/70 running RT-11. What it doesn't know is that it's actually running in a simulation, and that simulation is hosted on a DEC VAX 4000. But what that VAX doesn't know is that it's also running in a simulation, and THAT simulation is hosted on NetBSD 10.1 via simH. But what NetBSD doesn't know is that it's also running in a QEMU simulator. And what THAT simulator doesn't know is that it's running within a virtual machine in Proxmox. Yes, I really set this all up, and it works... And Proxmox is running on the bare hardware, a Dell 7875 Workstation with 192 Threadripper cores and 1TB of memory. Much to my surprise, the performance is akin to that of my real PDP-11/34, at least for tasks like directory listings and text scrolling. Assuming you live in a simulation, this is what happens when your simulation develops the technology to create a simulation of its own. And so on all the way down. In fact, the odds are you're either in the Proxmox layer or somewhere deep in the simulation hierarchy. The odds that you exist in the first simulated layer seems low. After all, once you've demonstrated that simulating reality is possible at all, the depth of the simulations becomes a zero-one-infinity problem.