I remember reading Bostrom's work in 2014 and raving about it to others while no one really understood what I was so interested in. Well, now everyone is talking about this topic. One of my favorite analogies in the book goes something like, imagine a worm wriggling in the ground, it has no conception of the god-like beings that inhabit the world, in cities, having all sorts of goals, doing all sorts of jobs. It literally does not have the brain power to comprehend what is happening.
Now imagine we are the worm.