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Eder’s 1994 message describes a positive feedback between technology, population and educated researchers, and projects a sharp rise in available brainpower once computers reach human-brain capacity. Copy claim link
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Date 1994-05-23 · publication Wording attested 1997-07-12. Known only from the relay on Anders Sandberg’s web pages, captured by the Internet Archive on 1997-07-12. Role Context Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Missing element Population, educated researchers and technology reinforce each other, and computer capacity rises with hardware trends; no machine improves its own intelligence or design capacity. Scope and limits A hardware projection; computing throughput is not shown to equal intelligence. The wording is attested from 1997.
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The Singularity (relay of a sci.nanotech message by Dani Eder) ↗ Anders Sandberg, Transhuman Page (relay) · 1994-05-23
Archived copy, captured 1997-07-12: The Singularity (relay of a sci.nanotech message by Dani Eder) ↗
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Paraphrase Eder describes positive feedback between technology, population and the number of educated researchers, and defines the singularity as the eventual peak rate of technological progress, subject to physical limits.
Location in source Body under "The Singularity", from human technological acceleration through the distinction from Vinge’s stories
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Source details and check notes Authors Dani Eder Version Plain-text relay as captured on 1997-07-12 (raw capture), retrieved 2026-10-06 with the hash recorded by the pre-1996 candidate search. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-06 Language English (en) Archive copy Open archived copy, captured 1997-07-12: The Singularity (relay of a sci.nanotech message by Dani Eder) ↗ . Captured 1146 days after the recorded publication date. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 1997-07-12. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-06.Attribution Dani Eder, "Re: The Singularity", sci.nanotech, relayed by Anders Sandberg. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata and labelled paraphrases only: the text survives only in a third party’s relay. Phrases in quotation marks inside a paraphrase identify the source's wording. Check notes Paraphrase from the pre-1996 candidate search, retained by a later machine check. primary source Supports the claim
The Singularity (relay of a sci.nanotech message by Dani Eder) ↗ Anders Sandberg, Transhuman Page (relay) · 1994-05-23
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Paraphrase With computer capacity doubling about every two years, computers reach human-brain capacity in about forty years and keep growing; because their production is not limited by human reproduction, total brainpower rises sharply.
Location in source "When will the Singularity Occur?", paragraphs on computer capacity
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Source details and check notes Authors Dani Eder Version Plain-text relay as captured on 1997-07-12 (raw capture), retrieved 2026-10-06 with the hash recorded by the pre-1996 candidate search. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-06 Language English (en) Archive copy Open archived copy, captured 1997-07-12: The Singularity (relay of a sci.nanotech message by Dani Eder) ↗ . Captured 1146 days after the recorded publication date. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 1997-07-12. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-06.Attribution Dani Eder, "Re: The Singularity", sci.nanotech, relayed by Anders Sandberg. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata and labelled paraphrases only: the text survives only in a third party’s relay. Phrases in quotation marks inside a paraphrase identify the source's wording. Check notes Paraphrase from the pre-1996 candidate search. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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Date. Date header as preserved in the relay (23 May 94 03:51:48 GMT, sci.nanotech); the relay lacks the Message-ID and transport headers, so the posting is not independently authenticated.
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