I was really hoping this article would show a clever argument why we don't live in a simulation. Instead it questions why an advanced civilization would have an

I was really hoping this article would show a clever argument why we don't live in a simulation. Instead it questions why an advanced civilization would have any interest in performing this simulation. We can't have the faintest hope to understand what some super-advanced beings want to do, just like a drosophila melanogaster fly can't understand why we spent time on Hacker News.