He's not pulling those numbers out of his ass, he's reporting the results of a paper Nick Bostrom wrote: http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.pdf http:

He's not pulling those numbers out of his ass, he's reporting the results of a paper Nick Bostrom wrote: http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.pdf http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.pdf. You might agree or disagree with Bostrom's paper, but one of those is a high-schooler/tripper/moviemaker's _idea_, and one is a scientific paper, which is meant to be repeatable, experimental, etc.