Humans would build and control the robots that go out, collect resources and bring them back without risking human life's. They can also do experiments, since we do not know nearly enough to keep people safe.
I would love to risk my one wild and precious life doing microbiology in a lab off-world
I'm sure lots of people would. I just think it is more likely at this point that we spread and it just exacerbates our existing issues by shifting them to a much larger scale.
This isn’t about just resources. It’s about humans spreading through the galaxy.
For what purpose? So we can oppress and kill each other on a far grander scale?
If that’s all humanity is to you then this conversation is pointless.
That's not what I said. However, I do believe that colonizing other planets at our current level of cultural development will exacerbate the negative aspects of our current reality a thousand fold while providing little to no benefit to anyone who doesn't own a company making money off it.
In their defence, dyauspitr is imagining that cultural development will be solved within 100 years. At least I'm pretty sure that's in scope for '"perfect" humans'. That said, I could hardly ask for a better subthread to prove my point about the infeasibility of defining a perfect human.
I think 100years is optimistic. I'm not talking about perfect humans, that reads like eugenics to me. My hope is that we could find a way to convince more people to stop hating each other simply for being different. Like how evangelicals are rabbid about Muslims, but from my outside perspective they are fundamentally the same. Same lineage, same god, same insatiable urge to control others and force them to follow a specific belief structure (which is fundamentally the same between those two). They fail to see how much common ground they have because of dogma.