The idea of Simulacrum comes from Baudrillard. His essay "Simulation and Simulacra" is highly recommended for understanding what is so strange about the modern economy.
I think it would, for all practical purposes, be impossible to determine an optimal warrior, even at very small core sizes. Not only is the search space huge but the evaluation function can take unbounded time to resolve. We should consider the halting problem embedded inside the optimization target as a clue to the problem's difficulty.