[ExI] Should we still want biological space colonists?

[Giulio Prisco]

Yes, but at the end I say:

The logic of this seems very solid. However…
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So forget what I said, and let’s build those little crewed outposts on
the Moon and then Mars. Our mind children will likely take over one
day, but let’s have some useful fun before.

On Fri, Feb 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM Jason Resch <jasonresch at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Feb 7, 2025, 3:26 AM Giulio Prisco via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> 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/
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> 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.
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> 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.
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