@gfodor 🤔 ig I'm assuming that over time we'd have more children & just as large a population remaining behind as if we'd not sent the segment off to another star system? and also that we'd continue to stream data at each other, so genetically distinct but still mimetically connected?
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Reply · Sep 11, 2023@gfodor presumably we'd have womb tanks, cheap gene sequencing, advances in synthesizing DNA, ongoing data transmission despite latency... if we want…Reply · Nov 11, 2023@gfodor i remember your posts about finding it tragic if humans diverge across star systems given the communication lag preventing back and forth...…Reply · Sep 10, 2023@gfodor unsure why this is a bad thing- if your descendent are on both sides of the split, you're increasing the odds that *something* of you exists…Reply · Aug 24, 2026@imitationlearn probably if we maintain this pattern over evolutionary time scales or intentionally pursue it with a eugenics program?