Is Life a Simulation?

In class we read an article about how our entire existence can be on someone else's hard drive. Although this is very hard to believe I think that it could be true. Neil deGrasse Tyson said "Somewhere out there could be a being whose intelligence is that much greater than our own. We would be drooling, blithering idiots in their presence.” He also said that there is a 50% chance that this is the case. It can also be true because technology is constantly evolving, so it could have fully evolved already thousands of years ago but we don't know it because we are in a simulation. One reason people usually deny this theory is because most people don't know why a higher being would want to simulate us, Lisa Randal stated "I don’t know why this higher species would want to simulate us.” Randall admitted she did not quite understand why other scientists were even entertaining the notion that the universe is a simulation." Another reason people may not believe in this theory is because there is no real evidence yet, but the chances are likely which is why I believe it can be true.