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Hanson, “If Uploads Come First: The crack of a future dawn” (1994-03-08) articulates G07. If brain emulations can be copied cheaply and selection favours those willing to work for little, copying continues until wages approach subsistence. Names human wages explicitly, for the period in which the upload population expands. 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 Earliest located in tier 2 Register (kind of text) Nonfiction 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. Conditions Uploads can be copied fast and cheaply; values evolve under selection; copying is not forcibly prevented. Scope and limits (First passage) Dated 1994 on the reprint; the earliest retrieved wording is the 1998 capture. (Second passage) Audit B.
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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 “With evolved values, most uploads would value life even when life is hard or short, uploads would reproduce quickly, and wages would fall. But total wealth should rise” Location in source Abstract
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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 G07-a (research/economics-growth). The quotation (28 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. primary source Supports the claim
If Uploads Come First: The crack of a future dawn ↗ Extropy 6:2 (1994) · 1994-03-08
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Source excerpt “Per-capita wages seem likely to fall in this period, for ordinary humans as well as uploads, though total wealth should rise.” Location in source Section "The Evolution of Values", 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 G07-a2 (research/economics-growth). The quotation (21 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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