A suitable answer to this problem would require at minimum a few months focused planning. And after that’s done I’m sure the preparation period will last for a few further months. Time in the present should be minimized to reduce the risk of something happening in the modern world which will make the time travel impossible. But to make sure I’ve compiled all the helpful technology and information to bring back with me from the present will probably take a medium-sized team of scientists and engineers a few month’s work. Even more to make sure it’s all properly summarized and indexed. So I’m going to write a full answer eventually, but that’s going to be an answer without the necessary months of thought that would be required if this was challenge was real.
The opportunity to go back in time with a requirement that it’s done at the drop of a hat with nothing but the clothes on one’s back and the thoughts in one’s head would be a godsend to humanity. The opportunity to go back in time and bring future technology and materials with me, while I get to prepare for it ahead of time, and I get to bring tomes of knowledge with me, that is an opportunity to be God. I believe that having such an opportunity and spending it on going back ~20 years and slowing AI risk or trying to make people a little more moral would be a waste.
A suitable answer to this problem would require at minimum a few months focused planning. And after that’s done I’m sure the preparation period will last for a few further months. Time in the present should be minimized to reduce the risk of something happening in the modern world which will make the time travel impossible. But to make sure I’ve compiled all the helpful technology and information to bring back with me from the present will probably take a medium-sized team of scientists and engineers a few month’s work. Even more to make sure it’s all properly summarized and indexed. So I’m going to write a full answer eventually, but that’s going to be an answer without the necessary months of thought that would be required if this was challenge was real.
The opportunity to go back in time with a requirement that it’s done at the drop of a hat with nothing but the clothes on one’s back and the thoughts in one’s head would be a godsend to humanity. The opportunity to go back in time and bring future technology and materials with me, while I get to prepare for it ahead of time, and I get to bring tomes of knowledge with me, that is an opportunity to be God. I believe that having such an opportunity and spending it on going back ~20 years and slowing AI risk or trying to make people a little more moral would be a waste.