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

[Giulio Prisco]

On Tue, Dec 2, 2025 at 1:14 PM John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Dec 1, 2025 at 8:12 AM Giulio Prisco <giulio at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > 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
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> 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.
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Yes. Humans could still play a role though: the AI at Alpha Centauri
could build receivers for human mindfiles beamed from the solar system
at the speed of light, receive the mindfiles, and upload them to
human-like robotic bodies made with biology-like robotics. This makes
me optimistic on the possibility that (post)biological humans could
visit Alpha Centauri.

But in the long run, humans and AI will merge and the relative
importance of the AI part will grow larger and larger with time, to
the point where there is very little that we would call "human."
However, I think it's important to learn to see those superAIs (with a
tiny little human part) as the fully human persons of the future.


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