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0. Just have a robot incubate some clones once it gets there.
by IpV8 8y ago
0. Just have a robot incubate some clones once it gets there.
- crooked-v 8y agoThis gets you a bunch of feral children who die after unintentionally breaking something essential for life support.
- lainga 8y agoNot if Anne Hathaway's there to raise them.
- stcredzero 8y agoThe world will be scary when we get to the point where we can implement an Anne Hathaway bot that's not in the uncanny valley. The world will be even more frightening when we have the beta Hathaway bots and they're still in the valley.
- lainga 8y agoNo, I meant actually sending a series of clones of Anne Hathaway, each of which raises another clone of Anne Hathaway until the target planet is reached. The first generation would, of course, be the actual Anne Hathaway.
- IpV8 8y agoGood point. We'll need to send some robot mothers too.
- crooked-v 8y agoThat gives you step -1 of "invent general-purpose AI that can completely replace a human". If you've got that, why not just send the robots by themselves?
- TooBrokeToBeg 8y agoWhy not just send rocks? The concept is the migration of the species, ie the fulfillment of genetic imperative. If you aren't interested in that, the rocks will be fine without us.
- paulpauper 8y agoyeah instead of taking rocks from space, send rocks into space lol
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- garmaine 8y agoYou might want to read the “Glacier” short story by Alastair Reynolds in the “Galactic North” anthology.