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Interstellar Colonization Strategies (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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Colonization Strategy

There's not any obvious jobs we would need them for, the general alone exception would be a mother AI whose job it was to incubate and raise humans from frozen embryos at the destination. We would usually refer to that sort of colony as a seed ship, one with frozen or digital DNA and embryos on board and run by AI or uploaded human minds. Your mileage may vary on if such a copy of an uploaded mind was an AI or a human or both. It is a gray area we also have to view through a fog bank of ignorance at a distance right now. Another option besides androids is to use cloned bodies and uploaded minds, download it into them, and that gives

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