After reading "Mechanical Age", I have this understanding:
I would rather be a cosmist than a terrestrialist, allowing robots to exist on earth in the form of another life.
Not just people, but all creatures on earth. All live to keep their civilization alive (assuming, other species have their own civilizations). For this we are competing with the species on the entire planet. However, in the larger direction, our entire earth is competing with the planets with life in the entire universe. So, for the sake of the planet, we have to learn to let evolved and learned robots take over the planet. Compared to us, they can survive indefinitely, which explores more distant universes. Second, they can adapt to harsher environments, such as the radiation zone in the movie, and survive far beyond humans. Furthermore, the ability to learn has almost killed humans.
So anyway, in the big picture (the universe), I'd like to be a cosmist. Only in this way can human civilization continue for a longer time.
Finally, I end with a sentence from the movie:
"Your life is just a small piece of time"
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"No life can last forever on this planet, look at me, my hands are born from the imagination of human beings, Your time will last on us, and as long as we exist, you will always exist”
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“Existence has no meaning in itself, life, we need to live”
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