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I find the theory full of holes... 1) Just think about the amount of power needed by a system to maintain such a virtual world 2) Consider the magnitude of the power needed to further maintain a nested system/S within itself???

[....besides.. i doubt amazon ec2 could scale this kind of thing anyway \)

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That doesn't bother me. Presuppose a fancy, futuristic computer that can handle it, and -- bam -- problem solved.

What bothers me is that it's tautological. It's meaningless and banal.

Well, nowadays philosophy is often meaningless. But I think it's a good exercise only to train our mind to think about non-conventional theories. Probably it's a lite version of 'What you can't say' http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html.

Evidently, it's a question whose answer is unreachable and, in my opinion, completely irrelevant (i really don't care if there is/isn't god, if we are a computer simulation, or if I'm a potato).

It's no worse than religion, and more likely to be true, from my perspective.

I have trouble understanding how the meaning of our existence or lack thereof is banal.

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