Think it's more an avenue than a cause. Solipsistic self-obsession and observation of the absurdity of the world as random is always the case for individualistic people who benefit from the organized violence of the world but do not wish to acknowledge it. Now they just say it's a computer instead of a gnostic puzzle. It does piss me off though because it fundamentally doesn't make more sense than not. Assume there's a layer over us that's more complex, that changes nothing because I'll never perceive it. We're still just as real in any meaningful sense as we would be if there was nothing above us, laws dictate our lives whether programmed by random luck of the draw, God, or some nerd with a universe coder. I feel from a set list whether set by evolution or some artist. Assume there's a layer of the same complexity, then this is identical to that level and we're just as real as they are.