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Robin Hansonauthored ↓If Uploads Come First: The Crack of a Future Dawn

“If Uploads Come First: The Crack of a Future Dawn” (1994) credits Robin Hanson as its author.

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Date: 1994 · publication

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Extropy, no. 13 (scan), "If Uploads Come First"

Extropy · 1994

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Credited as “Robin Hanson” (pDF page 8 (printed page 10), byline beneath the article title; also in the contents on PDF page 1).

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Authors: Robin Hanson
Version: Photographic scan of the issue; printed pp. 10–15 (PDF pages 8–13) read by the pre-1996 candidate search and a machine check, which confirmed the copyright header and footers. Copy hosted at diyhpl.us.
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Accessed: 2026-10-06
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Robin Hanson, "If Uploads Come First", Extropy 13 (1994).
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata and labelled paraphrases only: the inspected scan is a third-party copy whose permission to host is not established. Phrases in quotation marks inside a paraphrase identify the source's wording.
Check notes: Passage and locator as inspected by a reviewer from a different model family on 2026-10-27 in a direct retrieval of the issue scan; the preparer’s retrieval of 2026-10-27 had failed, so the check’s reading replaces a restatement of the source record’s author list; the scan has no text layer, so the page was checked visually. Given as a labelled paraphrase because the source records no document length against which a quotation can be checked. Human editorial review is pending.

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