I can't judge your specific circumstances, but I can say how much I admire the people involved in the highly illegal activities of the 1967 writer's conference[1] that was at least partially responsible for the Prague Spring.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Spring#1967_Writers.2...
Well I do not doubt this. However voluntarily documenting that you were there could hit back decades later. It's hard to predict the political situation in the far future even if you have a pretty good democratic setting in the present.
Nearly exact I think. Only difference being the thing being created is a government system instead of an AI, and the torture is done physically, instead of to a simulation.
And really, if one accepts the idea of a simulation of oneself as being oneself, then the govt/ai distinction is, I think, mainly decoration at that point.
Hm.
Recast, you could say: At some point within your natural lifetime, a brutal dictator will probably arise in the world (because, let's face it, horrific despotry is a recurring theme in human affairs). Clearly, any such dictator will want to punish people who did not help their rise to power by putting them in torture camps. Therefore, it is your only rational option to seek out the most brutal, repressive tyrant you can find and help them gain power. Any other action would be foolish!
While that sounds kind of absurd, people do act on it. People assume that there will always be a neighborhood bully, a local crime boss, an exploitive employer, and so they try to get on the good side of the inevitable by gravitating to the most ruthless (and therefore most likely to overpower the others).