A possible solution is to not pick out. Generate all possible minds (with some realistic constrains), and let them all live their lives.
If we have enough computational resources to run billions of slightly different versions of Archimedes, then we create billions of virtual habitats for them, and let them be.
One of them will be the Archimedes. We don’t know which one, but at least we succeeded in bringing him back.
A possible solution is to not pick out. Generate all possible minds (with some realistic constrains), and let them all live their lives.
If we have enough computational resources to run billions of slightly different versions of Archimedes, then we create billions of virtual habitats for them, and let them be.
One of them will be the Archimedes. We don’t know which one, but at least we succeeded in bringing him back.