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Most product markets today have a limited number of suppliers, and this would also be true in em labor markets. So the question is how many different kinds of workers are there really, for the different kinds of jobs to be learned. I estimate a thousand humans times a thousand ways to train and tweak them should be plenty.

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Robin, you mentioned in a podcast with Stephen Cobb that out of the human population at the time when em revolution occurs, the em economy will pick 100 or so best humans (whatever that means) to be scanned and make billions of em copies of them.

Don't you think 100 is too few and we might run into unforeseen problems of having too small "base" for the em copies? And if you would be in charge of the selection process, what characteristics you would be looking for?

I haven't yet read your book so I don't know if the answer can be found there, but I think this is quite important point if the whole economy is based on these 100 individuals.

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