The Rapid Growth of the M Cities

Within a period of, say, five years, we would go from our current economy and almost nothing different to a new economy that's much larger growing roughly every month. The typical speed of these simulations, I estimate to be roughly a thousand times human speed within their very dense, huge M cities. Once you have a few emulations in this new world, you could make copies of them as fast as you can make more computer hardware to fill them. And then they can do as many jobs as are available. So within a few years, pretty much all humans have to retire.

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