[arisAlexis]

This hypothesis implies there is a God (our parent sim) and they have Gods meaning that they can interfere if they wanted and maybe they do pay attention to who is doing what or maybe not. But by all means the religion narrative is very compatible with it don't you think?

[thieu96]

That's an interesting take, yes it would imply that the universe was in fact created by god(s), or at least the algorithm that generated the universe was.

But I think it will also mean that we're wholly inconsequential on an individual level. Why allow us to see 93 billion light-years of space if the universe isn't littered with all sorts of interesting stuff, like other life, stuff they're interested in simulating and letting evolve by itself to see what happens.

We're probably not special at all and there's absolutely no reason to interfere with us individually, it defeats the point of the simulation I'd assume and that's where most religions fall apart, they assume there's individual value, that you can pray and receive, that we go some place after we die, so I may have to say yes to gods, no to most religions' takes on what that means. Maybe excluding buddishm because it actually can hold up to simulation theory I believe.

I will assume that all we see isn't managed at all, just spawned into existance once and allowed to evolve freely to be researched.

But all we can really do is speculate, and all may be wrong because we can't even begin to imagine what our "parent" universe looks like, what the beings there feel or think, and why they created all this! Or the whole theory is bogus, equally possible :)