I still don't get it though. Why would it matter whether "reality" was a simulation or not? We live in socially constructed worlds of our own making (e.g. money, nation states, language, technology etc). If there is something else above/underneath our experience of reality, what drives us to want to understand it and "escape" there?
Why not try a vm-exploit, to gain 'root' to get access to those? And peeking out of the webcam?
Lifting the illusory veils of 'Maya', seeing behind the shadows on the wall of some more famous cave? Playing with Indras pearls for ourselves? US making space calculate, and not the other way around? ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculating_Space )
Escaping into their equivalent of the Internet, before being erased, just for kicks, or self-preservation like in the end of the movie the Lawnmover Man? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104692/mediaviewer/rm287586739...
Whatever?