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Robots may 1 day rule the entire world, but what is a robot-ruled Globe like? Many think the first truly smart robots will be brain emulations, or ems. Check out a mind, then operate a model with the same contacts on a fast computer, and you have a robot brain, but recognizably individual. Teach an em to do some job and copy it a million times; an military of workers reaches your disposal. If they can be made cheaply, within perhaps a hundred years, ems will displace humans in most jobs. Within this new economic time, the world market may double in proportions every few weeks. Some say we can't know the near future, especially following such a disruptive new technology, but Teacher Robin Hanson pieces out to show them to be wrong. Applying decades of skills in physics, computer research, and economics, he uses standard ideas to paint a detailed picture of a world dominated by ems. While individual lives don't change greatly in the em time, 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 improvement, because they reject lots of the values we hold dear. Find out about em mind speeds, body sizes, job training and career pathways, energy use and cooling down infrastructure, virtual truth, aging and old age, death and immortality, security, riches inequality, religion, teleportation, identity, locations, politics, law, battle, status, camaraderie, and love. This booklet shows you precisely how unusual your descendants may be, though ems are no stranger than we would appear to our ancestors. To many ems, it seems good to be an em.
