That Yale guy probably saw the Matrix one too many times.

It is my contention that this hypothesis makes no less sense than the original:

This paper argues that at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the canine species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “postcanine” stage; (2) any postcanine civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof); (3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation. It follows that the transcanineist dogma that there is a significant chance that we will one day become postcanines who run ancestor-simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation. A number of other consequences of this result are also discussed.