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If we're in a simulation then there aren't any alien civilizations. No sense wasting computational resources on them. P.S. As far as I know, computational complexity is the only physical quantity that doesn't obey conservation laws. So we're probably not in a simulation. If we were, it would probably be the other way around.
Shit. Worse yet, maybe it's just me in the simulation and the rest of you are NPCs. Tough luck for you bastards...
That’s exactly what an NPC in MY universe would say :)