[ExI] Should we still want biological space colonists?

[Adrian Tymes]

On Fri, Feb 7, 2025 at 7:06 AM Jason Resch via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

Even if AGI was about to happen, there is a vast gulf between AGI extended
from current AI efforts and mind uploading.

Besides, building space habitats seems preferable to terraforming planets.
Even without AGI, the robots we have today are capable of setting up mining
and manufacturing operations on Mars to support people living outside the
gravity well, on habitats that are built (including radiation shielding,
on-board/local agriculture, et al) to sustain life in far better conditions
than any world we can soon reach other than Earth (and, depending on the
habitat, perhaps even any place on Earth) is likely to support in the next
few centuries.
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