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Moravec's chapter of 1989 describes its author as one who "cheerfully concludes the human race is in its last century" and states that humans can take pride in machines that call themselves human descendants. 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 Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Scope and limits The dataset records this text on A1, A3, A4 and A5; this record concerns the acceptability of succession only.
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Human Culture—A Genetic Takeover Underway ↗ Hans Moravec · 1989
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Source excerpt “You may be surprised to encounter an author who cheerfully concludes the human race is in its last century, and goes on to suggest how to help the process along.” Location in source Opening paragraph
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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 (30 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 “to something transcending everything we know, in whom we can take pride when they refer to themselves as our descendants.” 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 (20 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. 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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