'The Age of Em' Praised as On Par With Superintelligence for Modeling Alien Futures
intellectronica · x · 2026-08-26
A reader strongly recommends Robin Hanson's The Age of Em, calling it on par with Bostrom's Superintelligence in rigorously modeling a very alien future and its core plus sub-scenarios.
With AI policy now dominating conversations in DC, the reader argues we should engage more with rigorous material that presents a plausible, mid-term scenario that reads like sci-fi — much of it involving robotics and life forms that map neither to humans nor existing AI systems.
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