Interstellar Colonization Strategies (Narration Only)
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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Colonization Strategy - How to Use Artificial Intelligence and Freeze People
The core advantage lies with the pursuer, both from chasing you and from having a planet behind them for which to churn out endless missiles. This means some rogue state can't get away with launching thousands of automated colony ships such as Von Neumann probes. There's no real reason to expect any human level AI to be required in the future on spaceships. Interstellar navigation itself is well inside the computational capacity of your smartphone for instance. It seems very likely that all ships would make extensive use of computers and AI.
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