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The primary reason we care about faster-than-light travel is because our lifespans are so much shorter than time taken to travel to other stars. If/When AI tak
by q1w2 5y ago
The primary reason we care about faster-than-light travel is because our lifespans are so much shorter than time taken to travel to other stars.
If/When AI takes over, it will likely be quite content with taking 10,000 years to go to the distant stars. It will also likely be more capable of breaking off a piece of itself and launching it at 1/10th C in order to get around relatively quickly.
It could "colonize" the entire galaxy in 10 million years - which is an acceptable time scale for it given that it has no finite lifespan.
It is our biological limitations that fixate us on faster-than-light travel. ...something the rest of the universe probably doesn't think too much about.
- root_axis 5y agoAn AI capable of colonizing the galaxy seems a lot more far fetched than a practical warp drive.
- native_samples 5y agoWhy? AI has limited lifespan too. 1. Computing machinery is made of physical matter, which means it degrades. 2. The large scale economy required to support, repair and upgrade it also requires many input materials. 3. Those materials are exhaustable and finite, which means, the AI will eventually exhaust its supply of "stuff". If that happens before it's able to expand into new areas, then it dies.