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Listened to the stream yesterday whilst running my milling machine. I wanted to point out that human evolution doesn't necessarily have to be linear. It can manifest dendritically and take a multiplicity of forms simultaneously. If humans ever become star-faring, evolution will bifurcate the hominid morphology as those who choose to live on artificial space habitats will evolve radically different from those who choose to live on planets.

@Engineer right, and then what does being human mean? Who is the "true heir" of humanity once humans are spacefaring?

@Tfmonkey It won't matter. The literal Ubermensch will be living in space and beyond. In a sense, being "human" could be as diverse as "bird." A bird is still a bird, they just take many different forms. Who amongst the birds is the true hair of the Avian legacy? All of them.

@Engineer hence why I foresee wars breaking out against "the mutants" and the "pure humans" at some point.

Basically science fiction race war.

@Tfmonkey Ehh, maybe. Kind of hard to have a war when the "enemy" distance is measured in light years, and the unfathomable vastness of space just allows one faction to go "we are leaving" and go away. Its hard to follow someone to the stars. Which of the billions of stars, if any, did they go to? Remember, an artificial deep space habitat doesn't even require a planet. Finding a ship in deep space is basically impossible, and why would anyone even care to? Space faring = post resource scarcity.

@Engineer It will be a religious crusade. It's fine, it's human nature. Dominance and will to power and such.

@Tfmonkey I could definitely see that. A religious crusade to find something a trillion times more hidden than a singular speck of neon sand in the Pacific ocean.

@Engineer people need an enemy to overcome. I guess it keeps things interesting.

Even if the "mutants" flee, the "humans" will search for them everywhere they go.

If we can't find an enemy, we'll invent one. It doesn't matter. Love requires hate. Non-duality and all that.

@Tfmonkey The irony is that in the highly unlikely event the crusaders found the "mutants" they themselves will have been in space for millions of generations and will themselves be "mutants." Can a religious crusade last a million generations? What greater thing to overcame than the meaningless of life in the face of post-resource scarcity? To forge meaning in an inherently meaningless existence, by ones own will and volition. Those who can't will succumb to hedonism and destroy themselves.

@Engineer no, eventually the different strands of humanity will evolve and become "aliens" and people were forget that they started out at the same species.

I guess science fiction predicted this with all the "aliens" in Star Trek that are just people with body paint and weird facial prosthetics.

It's be like how religion spreads, develops differences over time, all believe they're the "true" religion, and go to war against each other.

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@Tfmonkey Yes, over a sufficiently long enough duration of time. That will require millions of years at the least. Also, once a civilization is space faring it is by de-facto post resource scarce. I could go into details, but living on planets is sub-optimal and there are multiple technologies that can be exploited, EG birkeland current energy, that makes energy and matter infinitely abundant. These cosmic phenomena, of course, require stellar scale megastructures to harness.

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