I always took the simulation to mean “society”, nation state norms, gossip about one another, elites… truisms of society being “facts” like GDP, not facts like

I always took the simulation to mean “society”, nation state norms, gossip about one another, elites… truisms of society being “facts” like GDP, not facts like speed of light. Like in the “clearly people doing the work is why potatoes are on store shelves, not due to the shareholders of Ore-Ida, which is hallucination.”