My naive intuition is that any assertion like this is hokey. If we did live in a simulation of some kind, there are no expectations that we can measure the phys

My naive intuition is that any assertion like this is hokey. If we did live in a simulation of some kind, there are no expectations that we can measure the physical rules that govern us accurately - either they behave according to some deterministic manifold or there exist gaps where the simulating environment papers over with whatever it wants. It seems like a fundamentally untestable hypothesis and the proposition of the article doesn't do much to push me in the direction of believing that you can come anywhere close to drawing reasonable conclusions about this.