Robots may one day rule the world, but what is a robot-ruled Earth
like? Many think the first truly smart robots will be brain
emulations or ems. Scan a human brain, then run a model with the
same connections on a fast computer, and you have a robot brain,
but recognizably human. Train an em to do some job and copy it a
million times: an army of workers is at your disposal. When they
can be made cheaply, within perhaps a century, ems will displace
humans in most jobs. In this new economic era, the world economy
may double in size every few weeks. Some say we can't know the
future, especially following such a disruptive new technology, but
Professor Robin Hanson sets out to prove them wrong. Applying
decades of expertise in physics, computer science, and economics,
he uses standard theories to paint a detailed picture of a world
dominated by ems. While human lives don't change greatly in the em
era, em lives are as different from ours as our lives are from
those of our farmer and forager ancestors. Ems make us question
common assumptions of moral progress, because they reject many of
the values we hold dear. Read about em mind speeds, body sizes, job
training and career paths, energy use and cooling infrastructure,
virtual reality, aging and retirement, death and immortality,
security, wealth inequality, religion, teleportation, identity,
cities, politics, law, war, status, friendship and love. This book
shows you just how strange your descendants may be, though ems are
no stranger than we would appear to our ancestors. To most ems, it
seems good to be an em.
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