30 times glitches in the Matrix got real and blew our minds

If this hypothesis is really true, the real question is why would advanced future civilizations create humans as characters inside of a computer simulation in the first place? The most basic argument is that there's just plenty of money to be made in creating simulations for the purposes of entertainment, plain and simple--similar to HBO's WestWorld, a theme park filled with AI robots.

Separately, another argument is based in the idea that simulations could be used for research rather than for profit. For example, anthropologists studying the rise and fall of civilizations can create "copies" of ancestor civilizations with billions of people and create millions of different simulations to understand how different changing variables in society affect the outcome of human evolution.