It is not. Just because a quantum physicist or philosopher says so doesn't mean it is. You are confused.
If it was a simulation you're defending determinism because you're affirming a higher force that orders everything for a specific cause.
Free will is achieved by exercising personal will against a determined norm - free will is
bending the spoon.
You've been programmed by Abrahamic religion and Cartesian dualism. Get professional help.
If reality is a simulation, then Trump was supposed to win because that's how this simulation is programmed. No.
This reality is a physical dimension where consciousness is embodied, the circular reason is self-referential and that paradoxical reason is the reason for assuming a simulation hypothesis - no one actually knows. It is a hypothesis based on assumptions and knowledge about the
past, not the future.
Goodbye.