What would be happening to us isn't the point. (Simulation would just stop, we would just cease to exist without even being aware of it, (not so dissimilar to t

What would be happening to us isn't the point. (Simulation would just stop, we would just cease to exist without even being aware of it, (not so dissimilar to the video/short story of the article). The point is showing there is no paradox, because our current situation is quite normal. The point is if the upper computer has a constant simulation budget, then our universe maximum age (perceptible duration for us) is the time it takes for the first civilization to reach the singularity. The upper computer won't ever be able to simulate behind this horizon. Which means that if we sample our universe at random among simulated universes, it is very likely that we won't observe advanced aliens because all the possible simulated universes by construction only contain one advanced civilization, and therefore there is no paradox. (There could eventually be multiple civilizations but time-frames of their technological explosions have to overlap very precisely (100 years out of 15 billions) so it's very unlikely, and because of Moore's law most of the computational load will be spent on the one with the biggest exponential)