[ExI] Should we still want biological space colonists?

[Jason Resch]

On Fri, Feb 7, 2025, 9:14 AM Giulio Prisco <giulio at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, but at the end I say:
>
> The logic of this seems very solid. However…
> ...
> 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.
>

As a third alternative: the robots we send to Mars and elsewhere could be
designed to host  uploaded human minds.

Then we could teleport ourselves to Mars and back in less time than the
average office worker commutes to work, simply by transmitting (at the
speed of light) a mind state into a robot body on Mars.

When their shift is over, we download that updated mind state and integrate
that day's memories back into the brain it was scanned from (or feed the
live recording (with the 20 minute delay)) into the brain as the shift
transpires.

Such mind receiving stations could be established throughout the solar
system, and it could even turn into a kind of tourism, as there's no danger
involved. One could beam to Jupiter or Saturn in less time than a domestic
jetliner flight.

Jason



> On Fri, Feb 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM Jason Resch <jasonresch at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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