When Robots Rule The Earth

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🗓️ 14 September 2016

⏱️ 24 minutes

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In a century or so, humans might be able to scan our brains and run emulations or "ems" on futuristic supercomputers. That means conscious, digital minds working much faster than our own, and rendering us all but obsolete! So how should we plan for that? Today David interviews Robin Hanson, George Mason University economist and author of "The Age of Em - Work, Love and Life when Robots Rule the Earth."

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0:00.0	This episode of Rule Breaker Investing is brought to you by Rocket Mortgage by Quicken Loans.
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0:15.0	It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast with Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner.
0:25.8	And welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing.
0:27.3	I am joined by a special guest today.
0:29.8	Really any guest on this podcast is just special by default since I've only done it two or three times
0:34.1	in our 60 or so podcast but Robin Hansen, our new friend here is an associate professor of economics at George
0:39.8	Mason University which is not too far from Fool HQ.
0:43.0	He's a research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University.
0:46.8	Professor Hanson has master's degrees in physics and philosophy from the University of Chicago.
0:52.0	What a great school, nine years experience in artificial intelligence
0:54.8	research at Lockheed and NASA, this is a very smart guest that we have today by the way.
1:01.0	Every single one of these lines blows away the host and what the host has achieved
1:05.7	in his life.
1:06.7	A doctorate in social science from California Institute of Technology, 3,050 citations, which
1:11.2	I'm gathering Robin is probably amped up since this book was published on June 1st.
1:16.0	It's probably gone up higher.
1:17.0	A slower, but that's slower.
1:18.0	Okay, good, good.
1:19.0	And 60 academic publications, this is his first book.
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