[ExI] [Extropolis] The elephant in the space mission control room

[John Clark]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2025 at 8:12 AM Giulio Prisco <giulio at gmail.com> 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 agree. I don't think a biological Human will ever visit Alpha Centauri
even though it's only 4 light years away, but an AI could. The best way to
do it would be to send a Von Newman probe there, since it has such a small
mass it should be possible to accelerate it to 10% of the speed of light
without too much trouble. When it arrives the probe would build a
large data farm and insert the neural connection weights of the AI into it.
And now the AI is at Alpha Centauri. Using the same method the AI could
visit the Andromeda Galaxy, it would take 20 million years instead of 40
but subjectively to the AI it would seem to be instantaneous
transportation.  *

  *John K Clark    See what's on my new list at  Extropolis
<https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>*

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