Moronic clickbait garbage.
Here's why we are not living in a simulation. It's really simple.
(1) Chaotic systems cannot be modeled with complete fidelity. This is a fundamental principle of complex dynamics.
(2) Our universe is chaotic. This is self-evident from quantum mechanics.
Simulating a chaotic system would offer no advantage. The simulation would have to be as complex as the chaotic reality one was trying to simulate. The simulation and the reality would therefore be identical.
The idea that we might be living in a simulation comes from a fundamentally mistaken idea that we live in a deterministic universe. We don't.
If Newton's laws accurately described reality, we could gain a lot by simulating such a simple universe. But they don't. They only approximate a complex universe.
Likewise, if General Relativity accurately described reality, we could simulate that universe. But it does not, at all. General Relativity approximates a chaotic universe with a geometric description.
People who promulgate the "simulation hypothesis" have confused the geometric, deterministic universe of General Relativity with our own.
Next time you want to try simulating a complex universe, start with a file of truly random numbers and try to compress them. Having trouble? I wonder why. Same reason you can't simulate a chaotic universe.
Edit: this is also why time travel is an outrageously ridiculous idea. ER bridges may be allowed with certain solutions of General Relativity, but they are prohibited by complex dynamics because they would bypass the chaotic process that underlies time's arrow.
Time proceeds because of random interactions with the chaotic background. One can only move backward in time by reversing those complex interactions, which is obviously impossible because each quantum-level interaction cannot be fully categorized, a la Heisenberg.
Link is broken. Article available at https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/are-we-living-simulated...