the glut of data center hardware pulls will be... glorious.

I think it might actually, the Chinese consumer ram market just dropped by 20% recently, hopefully that percolates elsewhere as well. Most articles are saying it's a combo of data centers being canceled/delayed and large companies like OpenAI not following through on bullshit statements they've made like "buying 40% of the world's available ram"

Will the simulation be them, now it won't but even in the future I doubt it. Certainly something like you might go on, something other people can not distinguish from you but you will die and somewhere deep down you will know the copy is just a ghoulish pretence. And the natural extension is a future population of dead copies of people talking about dead activities while our machines explore the universe in ways we hoped we would.