If a simulation exists, and there is evidence of it, then sure we could surmise that someone created the simulator - and would have some evidence of such?
I think the parent poster was noting that it is a pretty fundamentally different argument than say, positing the existence of a creator, because we exist at all - and that said creator has certain specific requirements of us regarding what we do on Sundays, for instance, or with whom and when we have kids.
> and that said creator has certain specific requirements
Is that a requirement of every flavor of creationism? Actually, maybe I shouldn't use 'creationism' in this context because that's a loaded term with a lot of baggage at this point. What else to call a hypothesis that asserts there's some kind of intelligence behind the universe that we see? Simulationists would seem to fall into that broader category as would old-school creationists.
Well, there are Simulationists which start going on wild flights of fancy about what said simulation creator intended/created it for, which yeah would start going into that territory pretty quickly.
Seems like first you'd need to have some kind of falsifiable evidence that we were in a simulation first before jumping there? Plenty of folks trying to do that though, without falling into the first case.
Personally it seems to have little to no real impact on anything I care about one way or another, so filed in the 'cute but who cares' bin.
I think the parent poster was noting that it is a pretty fundamentally different argument than say, positing the existence of a creator, because we exist at all - and that said creator has certain specific requirements of us regarding what we do on Sundays, for instance, or with whom and when we have kids.