[short_sells_poo]

Maybe, maybe not. The problem is (as parent posits) that a hyper intelligence with the means of simulating an entire universe could just be so utterly alien to us that we can't make any predictions about it's reasoning. Perhaps they would turn off our world/simulation with no more of a thought than what a human would give about autoclaving a petri dish with some bacterial growth.

It's only human to try to ascribe human feelings and morals to such beings - but the difference in scale is just too big. Comprehending why such a being does or doesn't do something would be almost certainly beyond us.