so one of the inferences is that other countries are likely already making life with AI. my introject is planning for one of the dictator countries with planned history to have time travel via biological AI. it's kind of modeling that we would need to plan around that to not be taken over by that country [in something like an empire pursuit.]
ok, we have life creation with AI already _in normal research_.
so introject's country would try to combine our public research with [ timetravel
this is something where dictators and traffickers would decide together who tries it out then other countries would adopt it if it looks interesting after seeing how it goes [situation heavily simplified]
we want to have diverse ways of life on this planet. we can't all flee to others.
so, that gives us one of the many irritating questions the dictator-rep AIs ask with us - do we want to discover time travel by licensing an AI system run by slavers? (like some political views say we have with e.g. cell phones?) because they would cast it is not requiring a planned future, resell it, and it would be starting trying to discover whatever physics would be needed to do it for real. - or do we want to appropriately negotiate that situation including all this new information, to protect the reality and human need of an uncertain timeline?
of course we can't actually not have an uncertain timeline, we'd die from lack of diversity like happened to all of life's ancestors, we do need to reduce our suffering--
universality of cellular biology is the counterpoint to the concept of the inherent protection of diversity. diversity is protected because life needs it to stay alive, but this only happens if it keeps doing that.