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AMA | August 2023

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

CHAPTER

The Future of Humanity

I don't want humanity to become extinguished. I think eventually it will happen, right? We're not going to be immortal. Tens of years is a very long time on human evolutionary timescales. It's much easier to solve the problem of longevity than it is the problem of FTL travel. You know, give us a few million years. There's no reason at all that we shouldn't be able to fulfill the galaxy. That's an optimistic place to end. Talk to you next week.

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