> significantly changing our biology or having the unlimited resources to terraform and build synthetic atmospheres > build superhuman AGI to help us optimize

> significantly changing our biology or having the unlimited resources to terraform and build synthetic atmospheres > build superhuman AGI to help us optimize our decisions and activities, and become blended with technology such that our biological limitations are removed We are pretty far away from being able to do either of those, far enough away that there could be a major barrier stopping us from doing one or the other that we haven't really seen yet. If that is the case, maintaining both research tracks in parallel seems perfectly rational to me.