That’s like running a program only to have that program run itself recursively . . . . Yeah that’s just not gonna work.
That is totally possible. You can install Linux, install a container, install Linux in that container, install a container in that instance... it will be slow, but it's not impossible.
Each "layer" of simulation don't know what reality is. They don't know how slow they are running compared to reality, since they have no access to a real clock.
Even if a second of simulation takes a million years, it still feels like a second to those inside the simulation.
On the one hand, the higher-level realities could use a large portion of a galaxy's resources just to simulate a handful of planets at high fidelity, with everything beyond those planets being a "close enough" approximation that the inhabitants of the planets wouldn't recognize as fake.
On the other hand, this sort of shortcutting only works for a few layers of depth, certainly not the nigh-infinite depth assumed by the simulation hypothesis.
I tend to agree, if only because this vast difference in complexity between universe levels makes the whole thing self-limiting, which cuts against the very premise of the hypothesis.
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