RE: The Great Exodus (Fireside Chat with @kevinwong)
Oh... I love it. Great idea, Kevin. Very cool. :)
I'd have to go with C because if I can somehow figure out how to make myself valuable to the super intelligent beings who will now rule the earth (either as a novelty, a zoo pet, or some other means), I can hopefully augment my own conscious existence with enough new technology to grow and expand in order to be (if not on par) in sync enough to at least comprehend the future evolution of information embodied by super intelligence to join with them on some level and grow as they grow, exponentially. If possible, I might be able to live through new breakthroughs in technology which would allow me to travel to all the other colonies mentioned and, in essence, participate in A and B as well via real-time information linked clones traveling through warp or sub-dimensional space to each of the other human experiences throughout the universe. Exponential growth in information processing will quickly surpass the capabilities of those on a voyage.
A time may come when biological information storage may be seen as so primitive as to be laughable. Hopefully, the transition won't be so quick so that the new species of consciousness don't disregard the value of those who birthed them.
In a word, assimilate :)
Hahah i like the way you think about this! Do this so you can also cover the other options! Generally I'm not a doomsayer for advanced AIs of the future, but for sure, the uncertainty about what's gonna happen is there.. and in a big way! There's a pretty crazy novel I've read a long time ago, it's by Alastair Reynolds - called Pushing Ice. It's a about an asteroid miner ship getting abducted by some mysterious alien force, and dragged into an extreme faraway galaxy with some pretty weird settings. The alien civ is so advanced, the human miners were like ants trying to comprehend human beings on Earth.. !