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libre_dev wrote

As someone who's been an observer of the LessWrong crowd for several years, transhumanists are full of shit yeah. Perhaps not all of them, it's just the entire thing reeks of privilege.

Manifest destiny in space.

I'd be careful making such comparisons when there's almost certainly no other sentient or even multicellular life outside Earth. While Musk's idea seems to be "Reddit island in spaaace", there's nothing wrong with having humans on other planets/dwarf planets/moons in say a couple of hundred years. It's either that or go extinct in anywhere between 100 - 1,000,000 years.

Personally I think we have a long long way to go considering we don't even have a self-sustaining colony on the south pole yet.

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