<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 7, 2025, 3:26 AM Giulio Prisco via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">This is my latest article on Mindplex magazine. Should we still want<br>
biological space colonists? I think the question is important, and the<br>
answer is not obvious.<br>
<a href="https://magazine.mindplex.ai/should-we-still-want-biological-space-colonists/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://magazine.mindplex.ai/should-we-still-want-biological-space-colonists/</a></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I agree.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Much like the story of the invention of shoes ( <a href="https://www.boloji.com/poem/8461/the-invention-of-shoes">https://www.boloji.com/poem/8461/the-invention-of-shoes</a> ) it is far easier to adapt ourselves to the universe than to adapt the universe to ourselves.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jason</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div>