[ExI] [Extropolis] Should we still want biological space colonists?

[Giulio Prisco]

On 2025. Feb 7., Fri at 19:02, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Feb 7, 2025 at 3:25 AM Giulio Prisco <giulio at gmail.com> 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.*
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>> https://magazine.mindplex.ai/should-we-still-want-biological-space-colonists/
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> * > It seems very plausible to me that, very soon, we’ll see an AGI pass
>> the full Turing Test and credibly claim consciousness*
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>  *We're well past that point, two years ago a computer could pass the
> Turing test, **these days if a computer wanted to fool somebody into
> thinking it was a human being it would have to pretend to know less than it
> does and think slower than it can. *
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The keyword is the FULL Turing test.


> *I like your article, I particularly liked the following:  *
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> *"I’m proud of having played my little part as a human being (release 1.0)
> of the 20th and 21st century, and we all should be collectively proud of
> giving birth to our mind children. The universe belongs to them. On a less
> gloomy note, I’m persuaded that humans and machines will merge and
> co-evolve, eventually becoming one and the same thing. So we will be our
> mind children, and they will be us. Based on all the considerations above,
> wasting time and resources with biological space colonists doesn’t seem to
> make sense. Let’s save all that money we spend on crewed space programs.
> Let’s build conscious HL-AGI robots first – the first generation of our
> mind children – and send them to colonize the planets and the stars. We’ll
> be there through them."*
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But then I counterargue…


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