  === Bostrom ===  I think the piece is improving as we include other thinkers who laid the groundwork. As much as I enjoy reading Nick's materials the early pioneers are not modern philosophers. It's good that someone has written a thought experiment, but it seems like some of the editors are treating Bostrom like he was the father of the simulation argument  which he was not.  I would like to see this become less of an advertisement for his articles and more an overview of how we got to this point. And I'm happy to see that some of you have taken the time to research the topic and include the groundbreaking work of early thinkers.  Watching The Matrix and then writing a paper is not nearly as impressive as coming to that conclusion all on your own. Without any technology to point you in that direction, which is precisely what the early philosophers were able to do.