Many think the first truly smart robots will be brain emulations or ems.
To most ems, it seems good to be an em..
This book shows you just how strange your descendants may be, though ems are no stranger than we would appear to our ancestors.
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.
Ems make us question common assumptions of moral progress, because they reject many of the values we hold dear.
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.
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.
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.
In this new economic era, the world economy may double in size every few weeks.
When they can be made cheaply, within perhaps a century, ems will displace humans in most jobs.
Train an em to do some job and copy it a million times: an army of workers is at your disposal.
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.
Many think the first truly smart robots will be brain emulations or ems
