<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><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">giulio@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;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 dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jason </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On Fri, Feb 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM Jason Resch <<a href="mailto:jasonresch@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">jasonresch@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Fri, Feb 7, 2025, 3:26 AM Giulio Prisco via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> 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><br>
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> I agree.<br>
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> Much like the story of the invention of shoes ( <a href="https://www.boloji.com/poem/8461/the-invention-of-shoes" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">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.<br>
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> 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.<br>
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