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We didn't evolve there so we most likely couldn't survive there. And these planets are so distant we will almost certainly never visit there. Essentially nothin

• jrvarela56 4y ago
  Oh we will, just not in these meat suits.
  • tgv 4y ago
    The chances of mass extinction are a tad higher than those of use uploading to some non-corporeal construct and travelling at lightspeed.
    • jrvarela56 4y ago
      We can do the upload first and figure out lightspeed travel while in there. Chances of figuring out the upload before we do the extinction are higher imo. This whole AI boom may make it happen sooner than we think. It won't be the upload we all expect ("Am I me in there?") but it'll have human-like thoughts and consume the data we've produced so it'll be us/human in as fluffy a way as we define consciousness right now.
      • tgv 4y ago
        I don't think there will ever be an upload. That "AI boom" is nothing more than the capability to train very large networks, and (that's indeed a first) a recurrent one. But it doesn't resemble our way of being and thinking. But your variation makes it pertinently clear that it's not "us" who's going to visit those planets, but something else entirely. And why would we need a "super habitable" planet if we're just electrons in a few chips, anyway (ignoring the fact that electronics tends to die in 20 to 30 years of use, but hey)?