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points by jwpapi 3 days ago | 0 comments
How about sending robots to a habitable planet with biological material of humans, programmed to tell us the story of earth?

Re life quality: Sure technical advancement can lead to cheaper electricity, better materials discovered, disease prevention and a lot of other stuff. A lot is hold back by complexity.

I don’t want to make a call that this will happen and that it’s a net-positive for society. I’m just saying the technical advancements is interesting and enablin.

[–] dekhn 3 days ago
biological material of humans? you'll have to expand your argument here. Are you reconstituting the material on the other end? If you have that technology, do you need a robot to tell a human the story of earth? Why not just upload it directly?
[–] jwpapi 3 days ago
Like we haven’t solved it but it we partly did finish birth in an artificial womb and we have birthed extinct species through a different breed.

Theoretically it might be possible to do embryo arks where you would send machines to a new habitable planet and they would travel for hundreds of of thousand of years then build everything up and then artificially bring humans back to life.

Whilst this obviously has an enormous amount of challenges, we don’t know a physical law that is not allowing that.

Imagine what we do now and what we do in 100.000+ years when we face extinction.

We might also just blow us up, even though I think extinction is very unlikely

Practically an embryo ark