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I'd be interested in a blog post covering your latest thoughts on this. It's been a decent amount of time since you last covered it. I find AI vs Ems more interesting than most OB topics (signalling and sociology has been overdone recently). Perhaps I'm asking for too much in a blog post though, and I really should read your book.

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In the book I gave citations on religious behavior correlating with work productivity. If someone has contrary citations, I’m all ears.

But those wouldn't seem to be the only relevant correlations - or even the main ones. What about the (strong negative) correlation between the productivity of a society and its religiosity?

People experiencing brain emulations and being highly religious? The "spiritual" would have been palpably reduced to the physical. [Would en emulation of Bryan Caplan be able to maintain his religiosity.]

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