They aren't even any faster, let alone smarter.

I definitely thought Robin held that EMs could be run at faster than human speeds, or would be once moore's law/software optimizations caught up. I don't see how being able to scale only the number of EMs makes any sense.

Like Robin, I'm also feeling burned on this conversation, and I doubt we'll finish it;

I understand this, but it annoys me. I'm the kind of person who takes arguments all the way to the end. (which isn't always a good thing.)