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Re:Why I Hope the Search for Extraterrestrial Life Finds Not... by gort on Sunday January 10, 2010 @12:46PM (#1043347)
Bostrom is untroubled by the idea that humans will evolve to be unrecognisable; but he hopes we will indeed have those descendants.
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Re:Why I Hope the Search for Extraterrestrial Life Finds Not... by araneae on Sunday January 10, 2010 @02:38PM (#1043518)
Yeah, but for all he knows they'll have the intelligence of the common house fly. And not only is that incredibly unlikely anyway, it's essentially no different from dying out altogether. And who really cares? None of us will live that long anyway.
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