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Moravec’s chapter says machines, as purely cultural entities, will sooner or later be able to manage their own design and construction. Copy claim link
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Date 1989 · publication Wording attested 2001-03-06. Author-hosted file; the earliest capture, of 2001-03-06, is byte-identical to the copy retrieved in 2026. 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 A forecast without a mechanism of research feedback; the wording is attested from 2001.
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Human Culture—A Genetic Takeover Underway ↗ Hans Moravec · 1989
Archived copy, captured 2001-03-06: Human Culture—A Genetic Takeover Underway ↗
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Source excerpt “Sooner or later they will be able to manage their own design and construction, freeing them from the last vestiges of their biological scaffolding” Location in source Opening paragraphs, on the tension between nature and nurture, before the clay analogy
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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. 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 Checked against the retrieved file on 2026-10-06. 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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