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But there is nonzero probability that the genuine being outside the matrix would not be able to provide satisfactory demonstration due to e.g. limited bandwidth channel it may have to our universe (suppose that someone else is in charge of our universe).
(If that being is omnipotent in our universe you can just ask it to show the flaming text in front of your eyes, no need to simulate amoebas. But if it can demonstrate this, then it is straightforwardly a God and there's no paradox or question of any kind)
Or a capable trickster. Which one do you think is more likely?
Say, I were to make a flaming text appear right in the middle of your visual field, moving with your head as you turn it around, like right as you're reading this sentence.
Most likely explanation would be that you are hallucinating, at which point you can just as well give up and lie still for some hours hoping for image to go away.