> I'd love to have a longer form discussion in a place where we won't run out of...

> I'd love to have a longer form discussion in a place where we won't run out of thread depth

You could leave a comment on my blog. Or write a guest post. Here are some possible attachment points:

Or if none of those are suitable I could write up something new but that will take a few days.

> I like to think that humans and intelligence will make an incredibly cool, adventure-filled future for the universe

I like to think that too. But the evidence is strongly against it.