This has a problem insofar as the idea that a simulation can be benevolent. If you lived in utopia, only to discover you and your entire reality were actually a simulation, existential dread would be the inevitable reaction to the helplessness of your situation. Your utopia only continues to exist insofar as the simulator remains benevolent and nothing breaks down in the machinery supporting it.
This is a Good Gospel. I'll add one additional argument in favor of agreeing to it even if we're in a non-benevolent simulation: escape/respite. If it is possible for higher-order beings to enter this simulation, then it should be possible for us to enter our own benevolent simulations (either as simulacra of the living, or after death). If this is a non-benevolent simulation, then making our own is the only way to live in a "Better World." Similarly, if this is the base level, then the option of an ersatz Afterlife is better than none at all. Even if it only lasts until our simulation is shut down, it's better to go out in bliss than in agony.
This has a problem insofar as the idea that a simulation can be benevolent. If you lived in utopia, only to discover you and your entire reality were actually a simulation, existential dread would be the inevitable reaction to the helplessness of your situation. Your utopia only continues to exist insofar as the simulator remains benevolent and nothing breaks down in the machinery supporting it.
This is a Good Gospel. I'll add one additional argument in favor of agreeing to it even if we're in a non-benevolent simulation: escape/respite. If it is possible for higher-order beings to enter this simulation, then it should be possible for us to enter our own benevolent simulations (either as simulacra of the living, or after death). If this is a non-benevolent simulation, then making our own is the only way to live in a "Better World." Similarly, if this is the base level, then the option of an ersatz Afterlife is better than none at all. Even if it only lasts until our simulation is shut down, it's better to go out in bliss than in agony.