Scott honestly believes the simulation is more likely than any religion or scientific theory because of the odds. He cites the same fallacy of "If we make one simulation and it makes another that makes another that makes another, you have infinite simulated universes to 1 real universe (if there is one), which makes it a mathematical impossibility we're it!"
This overlooks that each layer of simulation would only have the processing power of the first computer, so we wouldn't even get 2 layers of simulation deep before the first one crashed. The only other argument is that one universe would make many simulations, even though there would be no practical use for one.
As you said about religion, Scott's other proof of the simulation are arguments for intelligent design/fine tuning wherein "Why would Earth be the right distance from the Sun? Why would Earth have a magnetic field? Why would our ecosystem be so exactly balanced?" but the issue with arguments of intelligent design has always been that EVERY religion takes it as proof that the universe was made by THEIR version of God. Nowhere can you point and say "The water cycle keeps us constantly supplied with fresh water, therefore, Allah inspired Muhammad to write the Koran!"
Things Scott cites as evidence of the simulation are actually evidence AGAINST it, like he there being different religions and cognitive dissonance in the world. He claims this would help the simulation because everyone having their own version how something happened saves the computer the strain of keeping things consistent? But it would put MORE strain on a computer to support millions of different views of reality instead of just one.
He also keeps blabbering on about what he calls "history on demand" by which he means that history changes with new discoveries because there is no real history in the simulation, it just generates it out of nothing when he dig. But once again that would take up MORE resources in the computer because its memory and processing would be supporting multiple versions of the past instead of one.
For someone who's an ex-engineer, his simulation babble always assumes computers have infinite storage and processing, and that it's more convenient for computers to store and process many many redundant files.
As for the schizo posts, he brings up names like "Gwen Singer, like Gwen Stefani the SINGER!" as if the simulation is written by an uncreative human writer, when a computer would just generate random names. Here, I just went on Random-name-generator.info and these are the 10 names it gave me in a second
- June Haynes
- Lucy George
- Doug Garrett
- Edith Holland
- Alonzo Jenkins
- Leslie Moss
- Jordan Gill
- Edwin Flowers
- Olga Burgess
- Phyllis Rhodes
None of them are "James Diggins, get it? Cause he was Digging into the penchant fund in the news story! Simulation alert!"
His most recent awful tweet of "Maybe placebos work because you're in the simulation!" doesn't make sense because we would want a simulation to tell us what medicines will ACTUALLY do, not what we would like them to. If we were a simulation, everything should be based on variables not belief!