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dreamedio t1_ircoti1 wrote

Reply to comment by 175ParkAvenue in We are in the midst of the biggest technological revolution in history and people have no idea by DriftingKing

Pretty sure people didn’t foresee delay in space exploration

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Professional-Song216 t1_ircs46e wrote

Yea but what problems does space exploration solve?

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TheSingulatarian t1_irdauu4 wrote

Resource scarcity.

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Professional-Song216 t1_irdb7y5 wrote

I can understand that but what resource are we immediately running out of now?

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ttrrraway t1_ire22fp wrote

I think that somehow they are right, if we had already terraformed Mars for example, we could have an overabundance of food and water, and we'd be able to split the pollution in different planets, solving global warming and other problems.

Similarly, there are planets and asteroids with enormous amounts of gold and other metals.

So, yes, in a sense, becoming an interplanetary species could have solved lots of issues.

But, on the other hand, becoming an interplanetary species is a much harder and more expensive task. Creating super intelligent AI appears simpler at first glance, and will also take us to space eventually.

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Professional-Song216 t1_ire2anc wrote

I see where you are coming from and I agree with your last statement. I’m of the opinion that issues like energy, disease and intelligence should be solved here before we can reasonably think about explore the stars

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langolier27 t1_ird6uzp wrote

Pretty much all of them.

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Professional-Song216 t1_ird8lgx wrote

How? We can hardly go anywhere at the moment. Name 3 solid problems it would solve that can’t be solved otherwise.

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langolier27 t1_irdbmnw wrote

If we became a multi-planetary species it would solve literally every problem. One of the main reasons for pursuing AGI is to help us advance with space exploration.

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