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Hanson’s 1994 article argues that, if uploading comes before human-level AI, billions of copies of the first few dozen uploads could fill almost all labour niches, and that delaying uploading while hardware improves would strengthen that early advantage. Copy claim link
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Date 1994 · publication Role Articulation Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Scope of the passage Decisive-advantage branch, for the first uploads. Scope and limits A conditional scenario about human uploads, not AI designed from scratch. The advantage grows with delay because hardware becomes cheaper, not because the lead compounds itself. On p. 15 Hanson concludes that delay should be avoided to make the transition more equitable and less sudden; this is not competition pressing developers to give up restraint.
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Extropy, no. 13 (scan), "If Uploads Come First" ↗ Extropy · 1994
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Paraphrase Conditional on uploading preceding human-level AI, cheap copying favours lineages that invest in further copies; billions of copies of the "first few dozen" uploads could fill almost all labour niches, and delaying uploading while hardware improves could strengthen that early advantage.
Location in source Printed pp. 12–14 on upload values and growth; p. 14 right column on the advantage of the first uploads and the effect of delay (PDF pages 10–12)
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Source details and check notes Authors Robin Hanson Version Photographic scan of the issue; printed pp. 10–15 (PDF pages 8–13) read by the pre-1996 candidate search and a machine check, which confirmed the copyright header and footers. Copy hosted at diyhpl.us. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-06 Language English (en) Attribution Robin Hanson, "If Uploads Come First", Extropy 13 (1994). Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata and labelled paraphrases only: the inspected scan 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, corrected to "first few dozen" after a machine check read p. 14 on the scan. 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. Third quarter 1994 on the printed footers; the issue’s contents page says September 1994.
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