This is a fun thing to think about - historical reconstruction. In the extreme, you end up with something like Accelerando[1]'s "resimulated" people - people re

This is a fun thing to think about - historical reconstruction. In the extreme, you end up with something like Accelerando[1]'s "resimulated" people - people recreated and resimulated in full fidelity from any and all available history, but who may never have actually existed. A bit like an AI hallucinating people. [1] https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelerando/accelerando.html https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/acceler...