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The 1990 Extropy essay calls the art of posthuman beings "singularitarian" and predicts a discontinuity in art after superhuman intelligence appears. Copy claim link
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Date 1990 · publication Wording attested Only in a later, undated copy. Later electronic edition of the issue, not a scan of the original; its date is unknown. Role Context Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Missing element No transition period; the word "singularitarian" describes posthuman art, not a takeoff. Scope and limits An adjective in an essay, not evidence of the word’s origin; the later electronic edition does not authenticate the 1990 wording.
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Extropy, no. 6 (later electronic edition) ↗ Extropy · 1990
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Paraphrase The essay calls posthuman art "singularitarian" and predicts a break in art once superhuman intelligence appears.
Location in source p. 16, right column, after the postscript’s quotation attributed to Vinge
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Source details and check notes Authors M.P.-Infinity (byline) Version Later electronic edition of the issue; p. 16 rendered and read by the pre-1996 candidate search. Copy hosted at diyhpl.us. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-06 Language English (en) Attribution Extropy no. 6 (1990), pp. 15–16. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata and labelled paraphrases only: the inspected copy is a third-party copy whose permission to host is not established. 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. Summer 1990, as printed in the later electronic edition of the issue.
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