I love talking about the block universe and the simulation hypothesis but it’s pretty unlikely that both are true at the same time, since good simulation design practice is to include some stochastic elements. That’s not a 100% given but it’s both likely and possible even in a sim ran inside a deterministic universe to include some variable parameters. Yeah yeah, if we’re in a stochastic sim in a deterministic block universe our outcome is still gonna be fixed since both the inputs and outputs from our li’l sim are static. So this is a meaningless semantic distinction and not really a comfort. Carry on sublimating!