The Robot as Liberation from Human Nature
A lecture or talk by Hans Moravec, Hans Moravec, dated December 1989. The author's publication list gives the printed transcript in Interactions 10, December 1989; the file header gives March 1989 (recorded as claimed).
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- The Robot as Liberation from Human Nature Hans Moravec (author-hosted LaTeX file); the author's publication list gives it as the transcript of the 1989 Hull Memorial Lecture, Interactions 10, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, December 1989, pp. 32-42 · published 1989-12 · Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 ba6e4f226341ccdbd0f0f83c27b98d527751e46a0c07b636dab4899c9cfeadd4). Author-hosted LaTeX file whose header gives "March 1989". It opens with the lecture text and continues with sections that repeat material of the 1988 Genetic Takeover file, ending with a footnote "Adapted from the author's book Mind Children". No capture located; printed version not inspected.
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- Machines succeed humans as the leading intelligenceMoravec's lecture transcript of 1989 states that human culture will come to evolve through generations of ever more capable intelligent machines, which will leave human biological genes and bodies "behind in a cloud of dust".1989-12 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Machines succeed humans as the leading intelligence: propositions page →
- Human minds transferred into machinesMoravec's lecture transcript of 1989 states that scanning techniques may make it possible to move the contents of human brains into other machinery, so that individual personalities may survive.1989-12 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Human minds transferred into machines: propositions page →
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- Superiority by many orders of magnitudeMoravec's lecture transcript of 1989 states that a "bush robot" with a trillion fingers would have a potential data rate more than a quadrillion times the thousand bits per second at which, it states, a well-trained human could affect the world, and calls such a device "an entirely different order of being".1989-12 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Superiority by many orders of magnitude: propositions page →
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