It's highly unlikely we live in a simulation because some gravitational anomalities are extremely difficult if not impossible to simulate.
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-gravitational-theoretical-physicists-quantum-complexity.html
Unless we are being deceived by an evil god who leads us astray and purposefully intervenes to manipulate our data, or the universe has some form of DRM protection to obfuscate its source code, it is very badly programmed and the simulation requires an unnecessarily huge amount of computational complexity.
No I do not understand about a word about the original paper on thermal Hall conductance just in case you are wondering. I am not a theoretical physicist or any other for that matter.