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Moravec's chapter of 1989 states that intelligent machines could carry on human cultural evolution without humans and without human genes, so that DNA will have "passed the torch" to a new kind of competition. Copy claim link
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Date 1989 · publication Records dated 1989 → Wording attested 2001-03-06. Author-hosted file; the earliest capture, of 2001-03-06, is byte-identical to the copy retrieved in 2026 (dataset record of 2026-10-06). Not compared with the printed chapter. Claimed date 1988-07. The author's file is dated July 1988. Role Articulation, Earliest located use of the name Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Name used “post-biological” Scope and limits The dataset records this text on A1, A3, A4 and A5 (machine self-design and takeoff); this record concerns succession only. A use of the term is not evidence of coinage.
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Human Culture—A Genetic Takeover Underway ↗ Hans Moravec · 1989
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Source excerpt “Such machines could carry on our cultural evolution, including their own increasingly rapid self-improvement, without us, and without the genes that built us. It will be then that our DNA will be out of a job, having passed the torch, and lost the race, to a new kind of competition.” Location in source Section "The Slippery Slope to Genetic Takeover"
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Source details and check notes Authors Hans Moravec Version Author-hosted LaTeX file dated July 1988, retrieved 2026-10-06 (hash matched the pre-1996 candidate search); identical to the capture of 2001-03-06. Author’s project archive, Carnegie Mellon University. Date: the file’s header gives “July 1988” (the file and the capture alike); the publication date, 1989, is the year of the printed chapter in the author’s publication list. No 1989 printing was inspected. Version date 1988-07 Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-06 Language English (en) Archive copy Open archived copy, captured 2001-03-06: Human Culture—A Genetic Takeover Underway ↗ . An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2001-03-06. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-06.Attribution Hans Moravec, "Human Culture—A Genetic Takeover Underway", in Artificial Life (1989). 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 (50 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. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
Human Culture—A Genetic Takeover Underway ↗ Hans Moravec · 1989
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Source excerpt “Present knowledge hints at the motives, shapes and effects of post-biological life” Location in source Opening paragraphs
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Source details and check notes Authors Hans Moravec Version Author-hosted LaTeX file dated July 1988, retrieved 2026-10-06 (hash matched the pre-1996 candidate search); identical to the capture of 2001-03-06. Author’s project archive, Carnegie Mellon University. Date: the file’s header gives “July 1988” (the file and the capture alike); the publication date, 1989, is the year of the printed chapter in the author’s publication list. No 1989 printing was inspected. Version date 1988-07 Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-06 Language English (en) Archive copy Open archived copy, captured 2001-03-06: Human Culture—A Genetic Takeover Underway ↗ . An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2001-03-06. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-06.Attribution Hans Moravec, "Human Culture—A Genetic Takeover Underway", in Artificial Life (1989). 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 (12 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. Contains the usual name "post-biological". No human editorial review. Status and meaning Editorial status. Machine-checked . Machines found this record and checked it against its sources; no person accepted it individually. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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