That's a good point. Maybe it would be based on intent? But yeah, without any way of determining which thing such a future AI would prefer, the AI's "influence

That's a good point. Maybe it would be based on intent? But yeah, without any way of determining which thing such a future AI would prefer, the AI's "influence" on the past would be greatly reduced. Only reason I see it happening then is if it happens to be simulating the past anyway, and maybe just does the thing for the people who already thought of it, and then that really only makes sense to happen if it was created as a result of those people. Otherwise there probably wouldn't be much point, so it seems rather unlikely. I mean, what's the chance that someone attempting to bring it about would significantly increase the chances of it happening? With our level of tech, and with the small number of people convinced by such an argument. Yeah, good point, I hadn't thought on that detail much before.