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In the event that you win, you gain the information that a conscious person has won the lottery. When someone else wins, you merely gain the information that a "person" who may or may not be conscious has "won the lottery".
The holodeck hypothesis predicts that interesting events are more likely to happen to conscious persons. Since you know that you are conscious, if you receive more than your fair share of interesting events, this seems to be (rather weak, but still real) evidence for the holodeck hypothesis.
For as long as you are studying me, yes. And then afterwards I get deleted and what you see of me is again just a few lines in an algorithm using up a couple of CPU cycles every hour.
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Heh, true. But I confront the same possibility with regards to my observation of my own consciousness.
You believe in p-zombies?
No. But the simulation doesn't need to run perfect simulations of humans who aren't currently the focus of the, uh, holodeck customer's attention.