<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Feb 8, 2025 at 7:38 AM Jason Resch via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 7, 2025, 9:14 AM Giulio Prisco <<a href="mailto:giulio@gmail.com" target="_blank">giulio@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Yes, but at the end I say:<br>
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The logic of this seems very solid. However…<br>
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So forget what I said, and let’s build those little crewed outposts on<br>
the Moon and then Mars. Our mind children will likely take over one<br>
day, but let’s have some useful fun before.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">As a third alternative: the robots we send to Mars and elsewhere could be designed to host uploaded human minds.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.</div></div></div>