[ExI] Should we still want biological space colonists?

[Jason Resch]

On Fri, Feb 7, 2025, 3:26 AM Giulio Prisco via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> This is my latest article on Mindplex magazine. Should we still want
> biological space colonists? I think the question is important, and the
> answer is not obvious.
>
> https://magazine.mindplex.ai/should-we-still-want-biological-space-colonists/


I agree.

Much like the story of the invention of shoes (
https://www.boloji.com/poem/8461/the-invention-of-shoes ) it is far easier
to adapt ourselves to the universe than to adapt the universe to ourselves.

Any civilization that has mastered technology to the point of being capable
of building artificial bodies and brains will see the engineering of
customized robotics as far preferable to terraforming planets and will see
the transport of uploaded minds inhabiting the unlimited space of virtual
realities as far more efficient than trying to haul fragile,
radiation-sensitive, prone to spoil, meat bodies to the stars in generation
ships.

Jason
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