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> our descendants will most likely be artificial

He accuses biologists for taking it for granted that future space exploration will be by biological humans. But then he himself has an equally strong assumption that it will be by a robotic life form.

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He doesn't assume that "robotic life form[s]" would be more likely to perform future space exploration. He's written (before) about why he thinks that's much more likely.

He is the author of The Age of Em, which argues for this assumption and explores it. Of course it's speculation, but it's an explicit and expected bias in the context of this blog.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Em

Still, it is a bias which is funny given the title of this blog.

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