Bostrom's 2003 trilemma does not conclude that we live inside a computer; it says at least one of three propositions must hold, and one of those three is that civilisations almost never run ancestor simulations. This is a conditional logical argument resting on the assumption that consciousness is simulable, not a piece of evidence. The things often cited as traces — discreteness at the Planck scale, the speed-of-light limit — have ordinary physical explanations, and nobody has found a glitch or a pixel. No test yet devised could falsify the idea.
Bostrom's 2003 trilemma does not conclude that we live inside a computer; it says at least one of three propositions must hold, and one of those three is that civilisations almost never run ancestor simulations. This is a conditional logical argument resting on the assumption that consciousness is simulable, not a piece of evidence. The things often cited as traces — discreteness at the Planck scale, the speed-of-light limit — have ordinary physical explanations, and nobody has found a glitch or a pixel. No test yet devised could falsify the idea.
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