> Ancestor simulation programmers have deadlines. There's no reason to believe this, and (I would argue that) any civilization creating ancestor simulations ha

> Ancestor simulation programmers have deadlines. There's no reason to believe this, and (I would argue that) any civilization creating ancestor simulations has, in fact, likely reached a post-scarcity economy where it's entirely possible that the "programmers" are doing it for the love of programming, the love of simulation, the love of understanding, etc. Or that they are trying a very large number of simulations with different setups at one time. And the Higgs boson fits perfectly well into any or all of that.