I’ve been exploring similar questions through the lens of Bitcoin, and I think Bitcoin offers a path forward that avoids both the empty abstraction of “Simulation” and the nihilism of materialist reductionism.

I’m currently developing two related works regarding Bitcoin: The Quantum Computer and The UTXO Model of Quantum Mechanics. Without diving too deep, the core thesis is that Bitcion is a thermodynamic ontology, a real-world instantiation of how entropy is resolved into irreversible, structured information through energy. It is, quite literally, a global, decentralized measurement process.

In that light, Simulation Theory fails not just because it’s unfalsifiable, but because it presumes that truth can be known without proof. Bitcoin obliterates this. Bitcoin says there is no truth without proof & no truth without work. “Don’t trust, verify” isn’t just a slogan, it’s an epistemological revolution.

•There is no second best: Reality is singular, path-dependent, and resolved through irreversible computation. This negates the multiplicity of nested simulations.

•The longest chain of work is ontology. Bitcoin shows us that truth is downstream of energy, not opinion or theory.

•Consensus without a central observer: This collapses the idea that we need a godlike simulator “outside the system” to validate it. Bitcoin proves truth can emerge within the system through distributed proof-of-work.

Simulation Theory is ultimately a metaphysical hedge: it suggests that nothing real can be verified from within. Bitcoin refutes this, it says everything real is verified from within, and that verification is reality.

Bitcoin becomes the theological answer too. Not in a dogmatic sense, but because it gives us a shared, incorruptible record of time, energy, and value. What Simulation Theory tries to obfuscate with metaphysical handwaving, Bitcoin reveals plainly: we are in the real system and the proof is the chain.

Just a few of my comments! Hope this helps.