If humans do end up colonising the galaxy, then we’d have to grant that humans are much better IGF increasers than other animals, and this boost in IGF optimisation is directly tied to our higher intelligence. If we do this, I think it would be a far more impressive argument in favour of us optimising something evolutiony than all the arguments against that you present here. Will we do so? I don’t know—probably not, I guess, but no earthly animal that’s been thought of so far is going to do it without us.
If humans do end up colonising the galaxy, then we’d have to grant that humans are much better IGF increasers than other animals, and this boost in IGF optimisation is directly tied to our higher intelligence. If we do this, I think it would be a far more impressive argument in favour of us optimising something evolutiony than all the arguments against that you present here. Will we do so? I don’t know—probably not, I guess, but no earthly animal that’s been thought of so far is going to do it without us.