<div dir="ltr">A very good critics. <div><br></div><div><div>But as you said once Giulio, you would like to write your own favorite scenario, had you the same writing talent as Robin.</div><div><br></div><div>Never mind, tell us here what's your scenario. Might be an interesting one.</div></div><div><br></div><div>If you wish to, of course. </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 5:13 PM, Giulio Prisco <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:giulio@gmail.com" target="_blank">giulio@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Paradiso and Inferno in Robin Hanson’s ‘The Age of Em’<br>
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My review of Robin's much discussed new book.<br>
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Come to Robin's presentation in Second Life next Sunday, June 26!<br>
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Robin Hanson’s future scenario in “The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life<br>
when Robots Rule the Earth” reminds me of Dante. On the one hand, many<br>
people will transcend (current concepts of) humanity and<br>
“transhumanize” - a word invented by Dante in Paradiso, Canto 1 - to<br>
become uploaded souls running on high performance computing circuitry.<br>
On the other hand, they will live in red-hot metal cities that create<br>
strong hot winds to disperse the excess heat generated by billions of<br>
uploads computing their way to continued existence. The infernal city<br>
of Dis, described by Dante in Inferno, Canto 8, comes to mind...<br>
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