[He will do one of these things. (Hint: it's letting Thomas take notes.)]

I'm convinced that this isn't real, so besides a psychological test, this can also be a test of the virtual system. How accurately our consciousnesses are uploaded, how cleanly the simulation runs. Beta testing.

And if it's a game show, something stitched together from camera footage, it'd be a really poor one. The populace can be into the crude and the crass, but this can't be all that exciting.