Agreed!
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Simulations require a system that is larger than the device simulated. To simulate our solar system would require a computer that has more components than are contained in the current solar system. The presence of such a “computer” would have a serious recursive effect that would distort the target simulation.
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To begin design of such a system. we would have to - define the problem. We do not have enough data to define the molecular structure of the solar system or a brain or all of the microbes that are in our gut and on our skin… If we are a simulation we would need to include the simulator as part of the problem definition.
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Current numerical computers are just adding machines that can be very big and go very fast, They are impressive tools for investigation of the universe, but they do not simulate the brain, Neural nets perform multilevel regressions that are brain like but they do not ‘simulate’ the brain.
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What would be the motivation for our society to create such a simulator? Why would it be funded? There are lot’s of neat ideas proposed every year that go unfunded. Why would a venture capital group back a people simulator - perhaps a pending doll show or they wish to create a slave society to replace labor?
Sometime around my 50th birthday I realized my zeal for implausible theories was a great waste of time - UFOs, Simulation, organized religions, bigfoot, Churchwood’s Continent of Mu, Libertarian politics, lost treasure of Point Reyes etc - all went into the burn before reading file.
Theft - To the extent that I do not steal, I am complying with a social norm, like I don’t pee in elevators.