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Title: The Age of Em

Subtitle: Work, Love, and Life When Robots Rule the Earth

Author: Robin Hanson

Narrator: Michael Butler Murray

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-19-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 55 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary:

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.

Members Reviews:

An analytical book suited as a reference book

Struggled to finish it , reads more like a reference book than a straight read.

30% of time me spent describing itself

The author spends almost as much time describing the structure of the book and structure of his research as he does talking about the ACTUAL content. I prefer books that tell me directly what they have to say, versus telling me ad nauseam HOW they are going to tell me about it. LOTS of wasted time.

Couldn't finish it

I couldn't finish it. It felt like it was never going to get to the point. That means a lot coming from me as I'll sit through just about anything.

interesting but way too thorough

Great number if assumptions draws upon authors perception of Emulation robot society and behaviours.

Interesting concept, but too intricate in detail to be credible. Got boring in the details of Em societal workings.

Just plain awful, some thing that could be said within 1 hour, unnecessarily and painfully prolonged.

within 1 hour, unnecessarily and painfully prolonged. The author assumes throwing big words around makes him sound interacting. The worst book on AI I had listened to so far.