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I'm confident you're making a joke but there's nothing to say that a simulation couldn't spawn a 13.8 billion year old universe that has only actually existed for a second.

And any downtime is likely to be invisible to anyone inside the simulation. Even a catastrophe could have the simulators restoring from tape and putting things back the way they were while we files are none the wiser.

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Could actually go a step further if relativity is right your'e looking at time slices in your local environment and ephemeral time slices before or after your plane of existence outside your local observable universe depending on your relative motion. The very premise that there is a constant rate of change which cannot be exceeded could also indicate everything has already been simulated.

Is it fate or freewill? It's a debate as old as philosophy.

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