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Robin Hanson is a professor at George Mason University and researcher at Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford. Please support this podcast by checking out ...

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My 12min TED talk has had 1.5M views.

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What would happen if we upload our brains to computers?

Meet the "ems" -- machines that emulate human brains and can think, feel and work just like the brains they're copied from. Futurist and social scientist Robin Hanson describes a possible future when...

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In the podcast you mention reading textbooks over podcasts and blogs. Would you consider books having the same quality of information? Or does it strictly need to be textbooks to get optimal learning? Thanks in advance.

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Textbooks are unusual in that they are designed exactly to summarize large important areas for quick assimilation.

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(this is worth a watch)

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four hours are u fr that's like three movies

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that is interesting way to spend 4 hours

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loved it

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thats more people than have ever read a top 5 journal publication

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so good I hope you go on again

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This is great to hear Robin - the audience is lucky to hear your thoughts