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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/12/2025 22:46, Giulio Prisco
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<pre wrap="" class="moz-quote-pre">Biological humans like us won’t establish an interstellar
civilization. AI will. The writing on the wall says that AI and
artificial superintelligence (ASI) will fill the galaxy and the
universe with superintelligent consciousness.
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href="https://www.turingchurch.com/p/the-elephant-in-the-space-mission"
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I've thought this is self-evident for quite a long time now, but
there's one thing you're not mentioning. Getting into space doesn't
just happen because you're super-intelligent. You need a rocket, or
some kind of launch system, and granted, a superintelligence might
be able to come up with a more efficient system than SpaceX has (and
probably will), but I'm betting it wouldn't waste a perfectly good
existing system. So while Starship might never take humans to Mars,
it might well take our mind-children there, and many other places.<br>
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SpaceX is not wasting it's time, even if it doesn't end up doing
what Musk intended it for.
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Ben</pre>
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