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In reply to the discussion: Jeff Bozos 'I don't see how anybody can be discouraged who is alive right now' [View all]gulliver
(14,010 posts)We need to make sure that AI pays a dividend for everyone. It's stunning to me that we don't focus on that. Pete's way ahead on this.
Bezos and Musk sometimes seem silly to me when it comes to living in space or on other planets. They're both extremely smart though. I think they emphasize that practical, even survival aspect of space travel because that's the most persuasive to most people.
The most persuasive for me is that it would be cool for our set of generations to achieve human exploration of Mars. It should be done in an international way.
Live there? Colonize? I don't think you can really do that until travel to Mars is no harder than, say, transatlantic travel was in the past. If you can't travel back and forth, you're effectively just stranded and isolated on Mars.