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But anthropically, since you exist within the matrix, and so does he, and hostages outside the matrix cannot reach you to make such an offer ...
You don't have 3^^^^3 people "running around". You have the population of earth running around, plus one matrix lord.
More to the point, if you create 3^^^^3 people, surely a LOT of them are going to be identical, purely by coincidence? Aren't you double-counting most of them?