[dcow]

I think when people say that “simulation theory is tired” they’re speaking on a pragmatic level.

Yeah the theory is well proliferated in pop culture and at present doesn't have any practical physical implication on everyman Jack’s life, so in that sense it’s tiring to hear about it, even to modern physicists who care not about asking why but only how.

But it’s definitely a very profound idea as you point out. And I’m always disappointed how many physicists write off the philosophy of science in their myopic quest to derive the analytical description of the universe.