All these forks and branches might eventually become different settlements, solar systems, multiverses... it's all information, and each world an experiment unto itself.
Morality can't be stuck in the pre-industrial era, and our current religions aren't really well suited for questions of matter and energy, consciousness as an emergent phenomenon, scaling thought past biological bottlenecks, etc.
I'm really excited about this future, even (or especially) if it means the end of human dominance. Life will find a way :D
"I am not an animal brain, I am not even some attempt to produce an AI through software running on a computer. I am a Culture Mind. We are close to gods, and on the far side."
Ending up with something even remotely like a Culture Mind would be pretty awesome to me...
#FullyAutomatedLuxuryGaySpaceCommunism