>>514824666
Ok, no insults this time. First of all how can you call me clueless when you yourself say that there is a possibility that the real universe outside of the simulation might be something completely different than our universe? But let's take that completely out of the picture
Why does the computer have to be bigger than our entire universe? And when you think "big" in distance for example in what context do you think about it?
I can open a space sim on my computer and "travel" millions of lightyears away with one screen swipe, if you populate this program with convincing enough intelligence in the sense that we mean it, they would think that travelling to the edge of the universe is impossible but to me it would be one swipe away. The only limitation is that you can't comprehend a computer that can run such "sophisticated" and big software but that's because we might think of it this way because we were programmed like this.
Your imagination goes only as far as the limitations of current technology or at best some scifi imaginations that we've created, but their computer could be literally infinite times faster than what we can imagine. Think about those redstone memory modules in minecraft, huge constructs that, from the pov of the villagers for example, are insanely huge buildings that go up into the sky, to emulate basically 1kHz or something and outside of that "simulation" we have something 5 million times faster running it. So the same could be true for those beings, maybe their tech is billions or trillions or more times better than the top tech we have currently so computations like simulating emotional functions for every single organism could be trivial from their pov
Btw I don't believe we live in a simulation, just talking hypotheticals