An excellent article - thank you so much for writing it. I've become so bored with Bostrom's mindless babbling that I smiled when I learned his pseudo-Institute closed its doors earlier this year. As for Musk, he's a marvelous indicator of intellectual credibility: any idea he champions is almost guaranteed to be totally wrong. The one thing I think is most amusing of all is that Bostrom advocates "long termism" yet this would be rendered pointless were reality truly a simulation. In the end, of course, the only truly pointless thing is Bostrom's existence.