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Hanson, “If Uploads Come First: The crack of a future dawn” (1994-03-08) bears on G01. If copying uploads is fast and cheap, their population could outgrow total wealth, lowering per-copy wealth. Copy claim link
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Date 1994-03-08 · publication Wording attested 1998-02-20. Earliest retrieved capture of the web reprint (hanson.berkeley.edu). The printed 1994 wording was not compared. Role Context Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Missing element States that the population of uploads grows faster than wealth; does not state that the growth rate of total output rises. Tier Tier 2. Tier 2 (changed from 1 under the maintainer decision of 2026-10-12: an author's standing as an economist is judged when the text was written). An essay in a magazine (Extropy 6:2, 1994), scholarly in form (abstract, numbered notes, references), that argues an economic model of wages and population; but in 1994 the author held no economics degree or appointment, and no economics affiliation is shown on the page. His later record as an economist does not count for this text. Scope and limits Conditional on copying being "fast, cheap, and painless" and on enough uploads wanting, affording and being allowed to copy.
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If Uploads Come First: The crack of a future dawn ↗ Extropy 6:2 (1994) · 1994-03-08
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Source excerpt “the upload population could grow at a rate far exceeding the rate at which their total wealth grows, triggering a rapid reduction in per-capita (meaning per-copy) wealth.” Location in source Section "A Population Explosion?", first paragraph
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Source details and check notes Authors Robin Hanson Version Wayback capture of http://hanson.berkeley.edu/uploads.html; compared with the 2000 capture of the hanson.gmu.edu reprint. Capture retrieved 2026-10-08 (SHA-256 c34890e352bba48a521c5237afeeb8d5b2063b3091e46bae35270326b9dbaf61). Versions: Extropy 6:2 (print) (1994): not retrieved; web reprint, hanson.berkeley.edu (1994-03-08 date line): checked (1998-02-20 capture). Published version: Hanson, R. (1994). If uploads come first: The crack of a future dawn. Extropy, 6(2). Printed issue not retrieved; page numbers not checked. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-08 Language English (en) Archive copy Open archived copy, captured 1998-02-20: If Uploads Come First: The crack of a future dawn ↗ . Captured 1445 days after the recorded publication date. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 1998-02-20. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-08.Attribution Robin Hanson, “If Uploads Come First: The crack of a future dawn”, Extropy 6:2 (1994); web reprint on the author's site, 1994-03-08. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage G01-h (research/economics-growth). The quotation (27 words) matched the checked expression (hanson-uploads-1998) in the pack's verification. Re-checked at admission on 2026-10-14 against a copy retrieved that day. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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