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Seems to me that artificial intelligence would be the next evolutionary step. It doesn't need to lead to immediate human extinction, but it appears it would be the only reasonable way to explore outer space.

If the AI becomes actually intelligent and sentient like humans, then naturally what follows would be outcompeting humans. If they can't colonize space fast enough it's logical to get rid of the resource drain. Anything truly intelligent like this will not be controlled by humans.

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AI is the resource drain. Humans create a lot of waste but in a mostly renewable way. It is machines and AI that burn orders of magnitude more energy, and at least machines do efficient work. AI is at best a search engine with semantic reasoning and it requires entire datacenters to run.

I get where you're coming from emotionally, yes, humans suck. But you are not being logical. You're letting your edgy need for attention cloud your judgement. You are basically the kind of human the AI would select against first.

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How am I being edgy? And why do you have the assumption that any kind of future AI is an LLM search engine? It's not, it has nothing to do with LLMs. It's a equivalent function to a humans brain using the same amount of energy, and can be synthesized and mass produced on demand.

I never said humans suck. I just don't want to be replaced or killed in my lifetime. I don't even use LLMs for writing code because I despise those companies.

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Why would it necessarily be interested in competing with humans and why with the particular goal of colonizing space?

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There are not infinite resources on earth. A reasonable and strategic intelligence will optimize for itself.

Colonizing space is the natural way to keep expanding and growing. Why would it artificially limit itself?