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Published · transcript-backedMichael Nielsen: belief
29 May 2024 Conversations with Tyler Michael Nielsen on Collaboration, Quantum Computing, and Civilization's Fragility
“I think getting off planet Earth and establishing a civilization elsewhere is very, very important.”
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- Michael Nielsen
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- belief
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- 29 May 2024
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…You have reason to think we’re going to last a thousand years in a civilized state. Not every person dead — I think getting off planet Earth and establishing a civilization elsewhere is very, very important. Yes. Very hard for economic reasons but utterly crucial. Robots, in a sense, make it harder because you could send robots to Mars to do whatever might be economically useful there, means you never work hard on having humans do it.…
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