The simulation, if any, cannot be running in a classical computer. Those did not exist prior to the existence of the universe, that is the simulation itself. Such a simulation could however be running in a MIND. That mind is what we call God.

What you are saying would only be true if the simulation is running in a computer of the kind we are familiar with. Those all require matter-energy to exist. All computers we know anything about are deterministic. If this simulation is running in a mind which exists out side of this simulation, then your objection would disappear. That great unfathomable mind is what we have labeled God.

The limitations of computation as we know them only exist for computers as we know them. They require matter-energy to exist. If this simulation runs in a MIND, then your objections all fall away. This unfathomable mind is the mind of what we call God.

If the simulation is running in a physical computer, the kind we are familiar with, then there would be no self determination. If that simulation is running in a MIND which in turn simulates other minds, human minds, then those minds would not be deterministic either. Computers are deterministic, but minds are not.

To the Sims in SimCity the programmer would always be "supernatural" because he/she is outside of the simulation. The Programmer of the simulation, that is the universe, is also outside of this universe. The owner of a fish aquarium resides outside of the aquarium, but can also interact with things inside the aquarium.

No computer of any size that we are familiar with would work, for the simple reason that computers of the kind we are familiar with require the existence of matter-energy. However, such a simulation could be running in a mind. By definition, such a mind would be God.

Those multiple universes could be nothing more than multiple simulation programs running in the same processor. That processor or cannot consist of matter and energy, because those are part of our simulation. This simulation could be running in an all powerful mind. That mind has been labeled God. The Sims in SimCity cannot know anything about the programmer unless that programmer somehow included himself in the program. If he/she did, the only choice they would have is to is it believe him or not. That is also the only choice that we have and our simulation of this universe. God has revealed to us certain things about himself. Like any revelation, that can only be BELIEVED. That is why God tells us in the Bible that it is impossible to please him without faith.

How does anybody know whether the world we observe is independently real or is nothing more than a sophisticated DIGITAL simulation running in the mind of God? All humans, including "scientists" ultimately have to BELIEVE or not what their senses and their extensions tell them about the universe. There is no way we can say for sure that what we think is "real" is in fact so. A sufficiently advanced Technology is indistinguishable from a miracle and a sufficiently detailed and sophisticated simulation this indistinguishable from "Reality".

The universe has characteristics of a digital simulation. For one thing, time, space, matter-energy each have a minimum quantity beyond which they cannot be divided. Our universe is quantized. It has a finite number of particles and a finite number of states. That means it is computable. All digital processing also occurs in bits that cannot be made smaller.

It appears that the Big Bang came from nothing. EVERY SIMULATION always starts from nothing whenever the simulation program starts running, Our universe has a speed limit. It is the speed of light. That is a fact, but nobody knows the reason why the speed of light is any particular speed and not arbitrarily faster or slower. EVERY SIMULATION also has a speed limit. It is the maximum rate of execution of the program. Life and the various lifeforms appeared suddenly. In EVERY SIMULATION new things come into being, where nothing like them existed before.

Werner Heisenberg, the originator of the quantum of uncertainty principle stated, "atoms or particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities, rather than one of things or facts.” (Physics and Philosophy page 160)

All we can do is to either BELIEVE or DISBELIEVE what the programmer of the simulation may have revealed, if anything. That is why God tells us in the Bible that it is impossible to please him without faith. EVERYONE has faith in something or someone.

It is obvious that enough Americans agreed with Trump or at least disagreed with Hillary. If that were not the case, he would not be in the White House today.

You have a Mac and are still using flash? How quaint!

If it had not been for Snowden, that iPhone and all other iPhones as well as other digital hardware would still not be encrypted properly. It is the inappropriate governmental data vacuuming that started this whole super strong encryption movement.

I installed Windows 10 in a VM on my Mac in order to find out whether the software I need to use will work correctly. Since it is older software, it does not need any network connection of any kind except to activate it. It works just fine so far. I see no advantage of Windows 10 over my day to day use of Windows 7, also on a VM. Other than the original installation, I can and do unplug both versions of Windows from the Internet. It may be that five years or less, it will be impossible to buy any software that will work independently, without an Internet connection.

I would buy a car right now that would drive autonomously on freeways only. Driving on city streets and highways has much more chance for unforeseen circumstances. Having the ability to get on a freeway in San Francisco in the evening and waking up in LA in the morning would seem to me is presently within the technology's grasp. Fully autonomous driving everywhere is technically and legally still a ways off.

I learned to drive in San Francisco in a three speed stick shift vehicle. The test for drivers license involved starting on a steep hill WITHOUT rolling back and also parallel parking on that hill. Anyone failing to do both of those things automatically failed the test. I managed to do it on my first try! Nowadays many people don't even know how to drive a standard shift car anymore.

It used to be that employers would have apprenticeship programs, to which young people could apply and get trained for the kind of job that would benefit the employer and the employee. Nowadays, multibillion dollar companies expect the employees to pay for their own training. Since that job training is expensive they have managed to roll off that expense onto the public through government guaranteed loans and public education.

Public education should lay the groundwork such as the 3Rs, history and other general education subjects, not job training for the future employees of multibillion-dollar corporations. They should be required to pay that as a normal business expense. University level education should be divorced entirely from the ability of people to obtain a job in the business/industrial world. If someone wants to get a degree in a liberal arts subject, they should pay for that themselves. The taxpayer should not be on the hook for that sort of thing.