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Moravec's essay of December 2000 states that he is not as alarmed as many by the possibility that robots displace humans from existence, since he considers them human progeny, and that humans should "bow out when we can no longer contribute". Copy claim link
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Date 2000-12 · publication Records dated 2000 → Wording attested 2001-06-27. The cross-family check found the quoted passages in the archive capture of 27 June 2001; the file's bytes differ elsewhere. Role Articulation Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Scope and limits The essay also proposes "tame" superintelligences to support humans "for a while".
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Robots, Re-Evolving Mind ↗ Hans Moravec (author-hosted HTML); the author's publication list gives Cerebrum 3 (2), Spring 2001, pp. 34-49, as "Robots: Re-evolving Minds at 10^7 Times Nature's Speed" · 2000-12
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Source excerpt “I'm not as alarmed as many by the latter possibility, since I consider these future machines our progeny, ``mind children'' built in our image and likeness, ourselves in more potent form.” Location in source Section "Passing the Torch"
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Source details and check notes Authors Hans Moravec Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 75dce30544bc3e4d0d28fa2af61f969a24343f96cdf7a11678dab15eec450cf7). Author-hosted HTML headed "Robots, Re-Evolving Mind Hans Moravec ... December 2000". Earliest capture located: 2001-06-27 (not compared). The Cerebrum printing was not inspected. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-31 Language English (en) Attribution Hans Moravec, “Robots, Re-Evolving Mind”, 2000-12. 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 (31 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 95) re-read the record’s source and agreed with its stance; its corrections were applied at admission. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
Robots, Re-Evolving Mind ↗ Hans Moravec (author-hosted HTML); the author's publication list gives Cerebrum 3 (2), Spring 2001, pp. 34-49, as "Robots: Re-evolving Minds at 10^7 Times Nature's Speed" · 2000-12
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Source excerpt “It behooves us to give them every advantage and to bow out when we can no longer contribute.” Location in source Section "Passing the Torch"
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Source details and check notes Authors Hans Moravec Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 75dce30544bc3e4d0d28fa2af61f969a24343f96cdf7a11678dab15eec450cf7). Author-hosted HTML headed "Robots, Re-Evolving Mind Hans Moravec ... December 2000". Earliest capture located: 2001-06-27 (not compared). The Cerebrum printing was not inspected. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-31 Language English (en) Attribution Hans Moravec, “Robots, Re-Evolving Mind”, 2000-12. 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 (18 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 95) re-read the record’s source and agreed with its stance; its corrections were applied at admission. 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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