Yes, the simulation was programmed so they'd arrive at that conclusion.

We are not in a simulation. A particle is only able to hold exactly as much information as is necessary to describe it, and hence is irreducible.

Any incomplete simulation, even to a tiny degree, leads to wildly inconsistent, and eventually incoherent conclusions.

Either our universe is a simplified, and thus unreliable, simulation, destroying any long term usefulness to would-be simulators ; or it is simply not a simulation at all.

Nice but ... simulation of what?

The whole idea was just something Elon used to recruit imaginative minds to his companies.