Scientific American is not exactly a scientific source. It's like all the other stupid magazines on the rack; full of rubbish.
Lay people read the drivel they publish and conflate it with vetted science like classical Newtonian physics. Even current legitimate scientific studies are not what Al Gore calls "settled science." They're claims that still have to be vetted.
I already saw this simulation claim. Just like any other quasi scientific "news" that circulates on social media, this "study" "proves" all kinds of wacky claims that nutters find so dear. This "claim" proves God, or flat earth, or solipsism, or any other popular woo. It proves whatever you want to prove, in the eyes of the public.
Lay people read the drivel they publish and conflate it with vetted science like classical Newtonian physics. Even current legitimate scientific studies are not what Al Gore calls "settled science." They're claims that still have to be vetted.
I already saw this simulation claim. Just like any other quasi scientific "news" that circulates on social media, this "study" "proves" all kinds of wacky claims that nutters find so dear. This "claim" proves God, or flat earth, or solipsism, or any other popular woo. It proves whatever you want to prove, in the eyes of the public.