Get acquainted with the "ems"—technologies that mimic human brains, enabling them to think, feel, and perform tasks exactly as the original minds do. Robin Hanson, an economist and social scientist, outlines a prospective scenario where ems dominate the global economy, operating on ultra-fast computers and duplicating themselves to handle multiple tasks simultaneously, offering humanity just one option: permanent retirement. Peer into an odd future as Hanson details the potential scenario of machine governance over Earth.
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