Intro.... The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life when Robots Rule the Earth by Robin Hanson

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you and most everyone you know is special, elite members of the industrial era.   • Delete this highlight
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you’d shudder to hear of many of your distant farmer ancestors’ habits and attitudes on sanitation, sex, marriage, gender, religion, slavery, war, bosses, inequality, nature, conformity, and family obligations.   • Delete this highlight
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Yes, you admit that lacking your wealth your ancestors couldn’t copy some of your habits. Even so, you tend to think that humanity has learned that your ways are better.   • Delete this highlight
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If you understood just how different your ancestors were, you’d realize that you should expect your descendants to seem quite strange.   • Delete this highlight
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Historical fiction misleads you, showing your ancestors as more modern than they were. Science fiction similarly misleads you about your descendants.   • Delete this highlight
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New habits and attitudes result less than you think from moral progress, and more from people adapting to new situations.   • Delete this highlight
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After all, your world hardly fits the morality tales your distant ancestors told; to them you’d just seem weird.   • Delete this highlight
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My method is simple. I will start with a particular very disruptive technology often foreseen in futurism and science fiction: brain emulations, in which brains are recorded, copied, and used to make artificial “robot” minds. I will then use standard theories from many physical, human, and social sciences to describe in detail what a world with that future technology would look like.   • Delete this highlight
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