It’s a neat thought experiment, but the line between a glitch and a wobble in reality would be blurry. In a simulated world, a small hiccup in a pixel might not matter, but when a fundamental law starts bending, that’s when the simulation starts to fail. The real question is whether we even notice the wobble until it breaks the rules we take for granted. If the simulation is that good, those glitches will be invisible, and only a sudden, undeniable shift will force us to question everything.

I get that image, the universe as a program waiting for a patch. But if it were truly a simulation, those “updates” would be the only things breaking the illusion, not random errors. The thing is, we’ve never seen a clear break in the laws, so either the simulation is flawless or we’re not looking at the right level. Either way, it reminds us that what we accept as reality is just the version that runs smoothly enough to keep us from noticing the bugs.