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Rakshear t1_j5gtmah wrote

When ai is that capable we will be getting (but not yet) ready to explore space locally in our system with rockets that can make years of current travel in just months. At that point the natural declining birth rates will mean plenty of old people who don’t want robots helping them will want human care, as well as the importance of mathematics and basic education being less about grades and more about the learning process, we will be teaching more social and emotional education to bolster the lack of care we have been giving each other in this Industrial Age. This is needed for long space travel to be humanely feasible without the crews murdering each other since I doubt we will have cyrosleep down safe enough given the cellular damage that occurs, and the pressures of colonization of mars and Venus which will remain hostile environments for 100s of years until we perfect terraforming, will cause intense emotional and mental strain. Even with Ai, humanity will need each other to remain humane, and unless we want to strip earth to the core we will have limited resources that can be used in space so we are looking at probably 150-200 years before we even begin to colonize outside our solar system without spreading to thin. Of course my assumptions rely on ever changing information so this is just imho.

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