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Nobody knows enough about the universe to say this.

In some outer reality, a kid is pointing at the screen laughing, "ha ha, look at those stupid sims, I made Donald Trump president and they still think it's real."

And it's some kid's science fair project, to that

The Simpsons got it right once again.

A simulation of what?

> A simulation of what?

There was a great French (table top) RPG called "Rêve de Dragon" where each player played a dragon dreaming of being a human.

So in about three years there's going to be a really fantastic TV show, goes on for five or six seasons, but gets canceled without a satisfying ending.

They're re-running our universe in simulation to try to generate a good finale for it.