I think I see Hintons point. Unless cryo works or a few other long shots, every human on earth is scheduled to die within a short period of time.
Our descendants will be intelligent and have some information we gave them from genes to whatever records we left and ideas we taught them.
This is true regardless of whether the descendants are silicon or flesh. So who cares which.
Either way the survival environment will require high intelligence so no scenario save a small number of true annihilation scenarios are distinguishable as good or bad outcomes.
I think I see Hintons point. Unless cryo works or a few other long shots, every human on earth is scheduled to die within a short period of time.
Our descendants will be intelligent and have some information we gave them from genes to whatever records we left and ideas we taught them.
This is true regardless of whether the descendants are silicon or flesh. So who cares which.
Either way the survival environment will require high intelligence so no scenario save a small number of true annihilation scenarios are distinguishable as good or bad outcomes.