The amount of energy argument is poor because it's based on the laws of physics and scale that we ourselves perceive. You have to think outside the box. What

The amount of energy argument is poor because it's based on the laws of physics and scale that we ourselves perceive. You have to think outside the box. What if the simulating universe simply had 5 spatial dimensions? Simulating our 3d+time universe embedded in that universe would be trivial.