[ExI] The elephant in the space mission control room

[Ben Zaiboc]

On 01/12/2025 22:46, Giulio Prisco wrote:
> Biological humans like us won’t establish an interstellar
> civilization. AI will. The writing on the wall says that AI and
> artificial superintelligence (ASI) will fill the galaxy and the
> universe with superintelligent consciousness.
> https://www.turingchurch.com/p/the-elephant-in-the-space-mission


I've thought this is self-evident for quite a long time now, but there's 
one thing you're not mentioning. Getting into space doesn't just happen 
because you're super-intelligent. You need a rocket, or some kind of 
launch system, and granted, a superintelligence might be able to come up 
with a more efficient system than SpaceX has (and probably will), but 
I'm betting it wouldn't waste a perfectly good existing system. So while 
Starship might never take humans to Mars, it might well take our 
mind-children there, and many other places.

SpaceX is not wasting it's time, even if it doesn't end up doing what 
Musk intended it for.

-- 
Ben

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