If we lived in a simulation, and most of us humans are non-player characters (NPCs, how can we spot who are real and who are not?

I have often considered certain groups, because they are oddly similar and I’ve never known one in real life, or even spoken to one socially:

• pack cyclists
• bus drivers
• osteopaths

Here’s a new idea – conspiracy theorists. Maybe something in their programming is glitching, combined with some need to belong to a group. Maybe such things spread only amongst NPCs?

So if someone thinks everything is a conspiracy – the war in Ukraine, floods in Australia, elections in the US – maybe it is a programming glitch and they are not real people?