How about adding “international conflict (or lack thereof)” as another dimension? The space race, after all, occurred (and is discussed) largely in the context of the cold war.
So a fantastic scenario would be that there is no such conflict, and it’s developed multinationally and across multinational blocs; a pretty good scenario would be that two otherwise politically-similar countries compete for prestige in being the first to develop FAI (which may positively affect funding and meme-status, but negatively affect security), and a sufficiently good scenario would be that the competition is between different political blocs, who nonetheless can recognize that the development of FAI means making their own political organizations obsolete.
How about adding “international conflict (or lack thereof)” as another dimension? The space race, after all, occurred (and is discussed) largely in the context of the cold war.
So a fantastic scenario would be that there is no such conflict, and it’s developed multinationally and across multinational blocs; a pretty good scenario would be that two otherwise politically-similar countries compete for prestige in being the first to develop FAI (which may positively affect funding and meme-status, but negatively affect security), and a sufficiently good scenario would be that the competition is between different political blocs, who nonetheless can recognize that the development of FAI means making their own political organizations obsolete.
Sure—if you can format your scenarios into an easily copy-pastable format like that in the post, I’d be happy to add it.