Or that perhaps we're a simulation.
We exist in a very interesting time in history when the pieces are coming together.
Our hypothetical future robot descendents may be very interested in learning about their past.
>Wake up
>No idea where I am
>Hey we have no idea where everyone is
>According to history nothing much has happened in the universe
>Oh look at that, just now that you are alive you are hitting the singularity
Feels a little like a rehashed sitcom episode...like a director is just brute forcing shit to figure out a solution, with our lives. And its all probably just on how to make a good cup of coffee for his interdimensional space ship.
With software that encourages emergent behaviour we are unaware of the abilities the entities take on. So in theory I think we could.
The better question is if it even matter.
This is kind of why I mostly find the discussion of whether we're in simulation to pretty quickly reach a point where it stops being interesting even from a philosophical perspective. I don't really see how you can differentiate between fundamental properties that we observe that reflect the "real" universe where we're just a simulation and fundamental properties that explicitly designed for the purpose of the simulation itself and may not actually reflect the "real" universe. We might as well ask if the OS our simulation is running on has a toggle for dark mode or not.
Belief is simulated knowledge and we exist within our believed world...so we are in a simulation of some kind, but we don't know if we are also in "the" kind.