[ExI] Should we still want biological space colonists?

[Adrian Tymes]

On Sat, Feb 8, 2025 at 7:38 AM Jason Resch via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

You miss Giulio's point, which is a short-term option long before the day
that mind uploading or similar options become possible, on the assumption
that said options will either not become available within our lifetimes, or
at least not until long enough in the future that we may as well colonize
the Moon and Mars with our current bodies so as to "have some useful fun"
while we're waiting for (presumably) decades or centuries.
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