If its true, then I would generally believe the way you describe it. But in our quaint little petri dish, all of our practical AI and Alife technology studies

If its true, then I would generally believe the way you describe it. But in our quaint little petri dish, all of our practical AI and Alife technology studies have been in the direction of making technology appear and act more human, or at least like what we know of in nature in our particular time and cultural frame. So it isn't such a big leap to think that if we are indeed part of a simulation, we're not all that different from our creators. We'd probably be damn near exactly like them once we've been "mastered" and well out of the beta version we must surely be in right now. Think about adversarial networks. Who's to say that all the bad in the world isn't simply one of those? Maybe "they" were or still are trying to solve it, and we're the hoped method of discovering a solution? We build off of what we know. So would "they." *Note: I feel I should point out in case it isn't clear - I don't believe any of this. But if it were true and we are all part of a simulation, I think it would be a lot like how we handle exactly the same subject in technology right now.