The Future of Human Evolution
A research paper by Nick Bostrom, Author's site, dated 2004. Header of the author-hosted PDF: "First version: 2004", published in Death and Anti-Death (2004); the PDF read is a later revision (see source version).
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- The Future of Human Evolution Author's site (nickbostrom.com); published in Death and Anti-Death: Two Hundred Years After Kant, Fifty Years After Turing, ed. Charles Tandy (Ria University Press, 2004), pp. 339–371 · published 2004 · Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 84e542c48b499b8b2a2e331f6ec0110588e8234c348a5886fa7d4402bbba9e36). Author-hosted PDF headed "[First version: 2004. Published in Death and Anti-Death … (2004): pp. 339-371. Republished in Bedeutung (2009): forthcoming]"; it cites a 2008 paper, so its wording is a revision later than the 2004 publication. Not compared with the 2004 print or the 2004-12-21 capture of the PDF address. The cross-family check of 2026-11-01 read the PDF as captured on 21 December 2004: it already cites Hanson and Moravec, in footnotes 11 and 6 (12 and 7 in the current PDF).Archived copy, captured 2004-12-21: The Future of Human Evolution. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2004-12-21. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-31.
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- Succession by machines would be acceptable or desirableBostrom's paper of 2004 (read in a later revision) argues that unconstrained evolutionary competition among uploads and their descendants could produce a society of complex structures, some much smarter and more intricate than anything today, in which no being whose welfare has moral significance remains, against the view that evolution can be trusted to lead in desirable directions.2004 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Succession by machines would be acceptable or desirable: propositions page →
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