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Ok, well, surviving beyond 1 billion years and various extinction level events, asteroids, comets, nuclear wars, are are the first priority, we'll worry about t
by fsiefken 1y ago
Ok, well, surviving beyond 1 billion years and various extinction level events, asteroids, comets, nuclear wars, are are the first priority, we'll worry about this later.
Perhaps we can set up a secret program where AI randomly selects individuals based on merit, character to get the latest in life extension treatments, philosophical and spiritual education so they can guide us (with AI assistence) into the future and beyond the solar system.
If we survive, 'we' most probably don't exist by that time in any recognisable shape or form.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 1y agoI suspect we have more immediate problems than "can we survive the next n billion years".
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 1y agoThere have already been close calls with nukes. No way in hell we last another hundred.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 1y agoIf only it was nukes. I'm afraid we're more likely to go out with a whimper. The fertility rates have plummeted and there's no reason to believe those will rise back to replacement level.
- larholm 1y agoThere is also no reason to believe that the fertility rates would go to zero. To an outside observer, we might simply be reaching a new equilibrium. The idealized Star Trek society of production automation and exploratory self fulfillment might only be possible, and sustainable, if we are a billion people. That is still plenty enough people to continue our ever accelerating and vast exploration of culture, science and space.
- rTX5CMRXIfFG 1y agoWhat values do you think we should optimize for?