You’re right and all the other commenters and downvoters are wrong—the absence of spider-man or other locally-physics-defying phenomena is obviously evidence against a simulation. To all of them—think about it—if we saw people magically levitating or controlling the weather or whatever, that would clearly be strong evidence that we were simulated, so not seeing those things has to be evidence against. Sad!
Now that being said I don’t think it’s very strong evidence, since in a large future there would be many, many simulations run for a variety of purposes, so there would still likely be a vast number of realistic simulations even if they weren’t the most popular(I also don’t think we have strong reason to believe they wouldn’t be popular since it’s hard to predict what use-case for simulations would be the most common, what people’s taste in entertainment would be like, etc.)
You’re right and all the other commenters and downvoters are wrong—the absence of spider-man or other locally-physics-defying phenomena is obviously evidence against a simulation. To all of them—think about it—if we saw people magically levitating or controlling the weather or whatever, that would clearly be strong evidence that we were simulated, so not seeing those things has to be evidence against. Sad!
Now that being said I don’t think it’s very strong evidence, since in a large future there would be many, many simulations run for a variety of purposes, so there would still likely be a vast number of realistic simulations even if they weren’t the most popular(I also don’t think we have strong reason to believe they wouldn’t be popular since it’s hard to predict what use-case for simulations would be the most common, what people’s taste in entertainment would be like, etc.)