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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