Claim · 2015-08-10 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

De Garis's chapter posted in 2015 states that humanity will be superseded not by a somewhat superior being but by one astronomically superior, and frames the question as whether humanity should replace itself as the planet's dominant species.

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What it connects

How Will the Artilect War Start? → articulates → Machines succeed humans as the leading intelligence

Where it appears

Machine succession, scale and acceleration: propositions in located texts, 1979–2026 →

Claim and evidence

How Will the Artilect War Start?articulates ↓Machines succeed humans as the leading intelligence

Machine-checkedStated in sourceSupported

Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Date: 2015-08-10 · publication Records dated 2015 →
Claimed date: 2014-01. The text states 'At the time of writing (January 2014)'.
Role: Articulation, Later restatement
Register (kind of text): Nonfiction

Scope and limitsStated as the 'big picture' behind the author's forecast.

The evidence 02

primary sourceSupports the claim

How Will the Artilect War Start?

Author's site (profhugodegaris.wordpress.com); introduced as a chapter of 'The End of the Beginning', edited by Ben and Ted Goertzel · 2015-08-10

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Source excerpt

“humanity will not be superseded by a being that is somewhat superior to humans, but rather astronomically superior, by a factor of trillions of trillions of times.”

Location in source section 'Humanity Swamped'

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-11-01

Source details and check notes

Authors: Hugo de Garis
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 2814aeb25f8b3be61dfc25262e113ff712b01147774609482859b71d06a9f6df). Blog page with article:published_time 2015-08-10T09:08:34Z and modified 2015-08-10T09:48:12Z; the text says 'At the time of writing (January 2014)'.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-31
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Hugo de Garis, “How Will the Artilect War Start?”, 2015-08-10.
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 (27 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. A cross-family machine check (2026-11-01, item 54) classified the record’s passage blind and reached the same stance. No human editorial review.

primary sourceSupports the claim

How Will the Artilect War Start?

Author's site (profhugodegaris.wordpress.com); introduced as a chapter of 'The End of the Beginning', edited by Ben and Ted Goertzel · 2015-08-10

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Cite the original document, not Selekoa. Check these details against it.

Source excerpt

“whether humanity should build artilects this century, and hence replace ourselves as the planet’s dominant (i.e. most intelligent) species.”

Location in source section 'Species Dominance Political Parties'

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-11-01

Source details and check notes

Authors: Hugo de Garis
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 2814aeb25f8b3be61dfc25262e113ff712b01147774609482859b71d06a9f6df). Blog page with article:published_time 2015-08-10T09:08:34Z and modified 2015-08-10T09:48:12Z; the text says 'At the time of writing (January 2014)'.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-31
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Hugo de Garis, “How Will the Artilect War Start?”, 2015-08-10.
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 (19 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. A cross-family machine check (2026-11-01, item 54) classified the record’s passage blind and reached the same stance. No human editorial review.

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Record ID ht-w01-degaris-2015-how-will-artilect-war-start