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+1 for thinking of unusual solutions. If it's feasible to build long-term very-fast-relative-to-earth habitats without so much AI support that we lose before it launches, we should do that for random groups of humans. Whether you call them colonies or backups doesn't matter. We don't have to save all people on earth, just enough of humanity that we can expand across the universe fast enough to rescue the remaining victims of unaligned AI sometime.
This is an experiment in short-form content on LW2.0. I'll be using the comment section of this post as a repository of short, sometimes-half-baked posts that either:
I ask people not to create top-level comments here, but feel free to reply to comments like you would a FB post.