[intjk]

At the end of the article, Scott essentially says the same thing, but emphasizing the other side of the coin:

> [...] the question of whether the universe “really” “is” a simulation has barely come up. Why would it, when there are so many more fruitful things to ask?

[inopinatus]

I always felt that the point of asking this question was not the answer itself, but that theorising how it might be implemented could lead to hacking the sandbox.

IANATP but I've read, for example, that violating Lorentz invariance is an active research area.

[XorNot]

Or looking for aliasing from a lattice QCD simulation in cosmic microwave background...