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Hanson's article of 1994 considers that people might "upload" themselves into new computer brains by modelling small brain units, and argues that some people would be willing to become uploads even if their old brains were destroyed. Copy claim link
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Date 1994 · publication Records dated 1994 → Wording attested 1998-02-20. The cross-family check found both quoted passages in the hanson.berkeley.edu reprint captured on 20 February 1998, the dataset's existing source for this article. Role Articulation, Earliest located use of the name Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Name used “upload” Scope and limits Hanson states the scenario conditionally ("What if"), as a premise for an economic analysis; the dataset records the same article on other concepts (race compression, takeoff, G01, G07), not on mind transfer.
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If Uploads Come First: The crack of a future dawn ↗ Author's page (mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson); originally in Extropy 6:2 (1994) · 1994
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Source excerpt “What if we someday learn how to model small brain units, and so can "upload" ourselves into new computer brains?” Location in source Abstract
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Source details and check notes Authors Robin Hanson Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 e99cc61e3158357844140f2e523a72da7fb4118298d6aa4791358f84cfa5d0f3). Author-hosted web reprint with the date line "March 8, 1994" and the note "This article originally appeared in Extropy 6:2 (1994). Reprinted with permission." Not compared with the dataset's source (the 1998-02-20 capture of the hanson.berkeley.edu reprint). The date line “March 8, 1994” is a heading of the reprint, not a stated date of publication. The cross-family check of 2026-11-01 found the quoted passages in the hanson.berkeley.edu reprint captured on 20 February 1998. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-31 Language English (en) Attribution Robin Hanson, “If Uploads Come First: The crack of a future dawn”, 1994. 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. A cross-family machine check (2026-11-01, item 62) 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
If Uploads Come First: The crack of a future dawn ↗ Author's page (mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson); originally in Extropy 6:2 (1994) · 1994
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Source excerpt “Thus some people should be willing to become uploads, even if their old brains were destroyed in the process.” Location in source Section "Uploads"
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Source details and check notes Authors Robin Hanson Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 e99cc61e3158357844140f2e523a72da7fb4118298d6aa4791358f84cfa5d0f3). Author-hosted web reprint with the date line "March 8, 1994" and the note "This article originally appeared in Extropy 6:2 (1994). Reprinted with permission." Not compared with the dataset's source (the 1998-02-20 capture of the hanson.berkeley.edu reprint). The date line “March 8, 1994” is a heading of the reprint, not a stated date of publication. The cross-family check of 2026-11-01 found the quoted passages in the hanson.berkeley.edu reprint captured on 20 February 1998. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-31 Language English (en) Attribution Robin Hanson, “If Uploads Come First: The crack of a future dawn”, 1994. 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 62) 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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Date. Extropy 6:2 (no. 13), stated as the original place of publication by the reprint read; the dataset's scan of the printed issue gives third quarter 1994 on the footers and September 1994 on the contents page. The reprint carries the date line "March 8, 1994" under the byline; this is not shown to be a publication date.
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