A simulation is just the modern current vocabulary for what the ancients considered to be a maze, a trap, a façade, an illusion, a veil over the eyes of the untutored ...

Doubtless ...given a few 100 years or thousand more ....if we make it that far....
Our descendants will look back at our primitive concept of the simulation as the construct of the universe ...as quaint and naive.

Mscion....
History repeating itself is purely a human issue.
Mainly due to our short lifespans and future generations needing to learn the same lesson...having never dealt with it.

The biggest issue humanity has...according to the scientists ...is that since we were hardwired to cope with perceivable and immediate threats.
We cannot conceive of threats which are a distance in time from us.
Just as every species has built into it the seed of its own extinction ..
Due to evolutionary specialization ..
Such as the panda which can only eat bamboo
Or koala which can only eat eucalyptus leaves...
And so every other species...
They concede that that may be our brains which have enabled us to adapt to situations very well...may be our undoing ...

Everyone thinks the dinosaurs went extinct because of an asteroid impact...
When really....what happened was they went extinct due to this...