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>>webnrr+(OP)
Ah, no. At best they prove that we can't simulate our own universe. They don't prove ours isn't simulated or that other, higher fidelity simulations can't simulate similar ones.

>>Dangit+f9
The idea that the universe is a simulation proceeds as follows:

(1) Person notices that computer simulations are getting increasingly powerful. Maybe we will be able to simulate something like the universe one day which will have life in it.

(2) If simulating the universe is so easy and inevitable, what are the odds that we are at the top level?

The idea in the article would refute the inductive step.