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Bostrom's paper of 2004 (read in a later revision) cites Hanson 1994 for the economics of uploading.

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The Future of Human Evolution → cites → If Uploads Come First: The Crack of a Future Dawn

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The Future of Human Evolutioncites ↓If Uploads Come First: The Crack of a Future Dawn

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Date: 2004 · publication Records dated 2004 →

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The Future of Human Evolution

Author's site (nickbostrom.com); published in Death and Anti-Death: Two Hundred Years After Kant, Fifty Years After Turing, ed. Charles Tandy (Ria University Press, 2004), pp. 339–371 · 2004

Archived copy, captured 2004-12-21: The Future of Human Evolution

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Source excerpt

“For an analysis of the economics of uploading, see (Hanson 1994).”

Location in source Footnote 11 in the PDF captured on 21 December 2004 (footnote 12, PDF p. 7, in the current PDF)

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

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Source details and check notes

Authors: Nick Bostrom
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 84e542c48b499b8b2a2e331f6ec0110588e8234c348a5886fa7d4402bbba9e36). Author-hosted PDF headed "[First version: 2004. Published in Death and Anti-Death … (2004): pp. 339-371. Republished in Bedeutung (2009): forthcoming]"; it cites a 2008 paper, so its wording is a revision later than the 2004 publication. Not compared with the 2004 print or the 2004-12-21 capture of the PDF address. The cross-family check of 2026-11-01 read the PDF as captured on 21 December 2004: it already cites Hanson and Moravec, in footnotes 11 and 6 (12 and 7 in the current PDF).
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Accessed: 2026-10-31
Language: English (en)
Archive copy: Open archived copy, captured 2004-12-21: The Future of Human Evolution. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2004-12-21. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-31.
Attribution: Nick Bostrom, “The Future of Human Evolution”, 2004.
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, machine succession, scale and acceleration (research/heterodox-thought). The quotation (11 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. Check decision 8 (item 132). A cross-family machine check (2026-11-01, item 132) re-read the source and agreed that the passage names the earlier text or author. No human editorial review.

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Date. Header of the author-hosted PDF: "First version: 2004", published in Death and Anti-Death (2004); the PDF read is a later revision (see source version).

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