An Answer to Hello

The argument that we live in a simulated universe centers on ease of manufacture. There has been sufficient time in all of time for intelligence to have evolved capable of creating entire universes - either as simulations within computers or ‘real’ ones. It would seem to be easier to code for an entire universe than to creat one, and so statistically speaking, it is the more likely we live in a simulation. 

But what if making a universe turns out to be relatively trivial, requiring nothing more than a simple tip of the scale, with nature doing the rest. Perhaps the inner horizon of a black hole is just such a scale that can be tipped to inflation, expanding beyond our universe, therefore creating a new one. How we tip that balance determining much of the nature of that universe. 

And so it seems intelligence given enough time can learn to do both - create or simulate universes - making either seem plausible in describing the beginning of our own universe. 

And here may lie the answer to Fermi’s paradox. Given the age and size of our universe and its trillions of planets - intelligent life should be ubiquitous - and talking. And yet we have yet to hear them. So where is everybody?

Self-destroyed or perhaps gone to universes of their own design.