Pigs in Cyberspace
An essay by Hans Moravec, Hans Moravec, dated 1992. The page gives "1992"; the author's publication list gives an informal report of April 1992 and the LITA volume of 1992.
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- Pigs in Cyberspace Hans Moravec (author-hosted HTML); the author's publication list gives Thinking Robots, an aware internet and cyberpunk librarians (LITA, 1992), pp. 15-21, and Extropy 10 (January 1993) · published 1992 · Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 967f23fd6f6c2cd1bc5cc2458f89bca80d4e7f9b9d15e96dbf00e8ea08e49e54). Author-hosted HTML headed "Pigs in Cyberspace Hans Moravec 1992". Exponents are flattened in the cached text (for example "1056" for 10^56). Earliest capture located: 1999-04-27 (not compared). Printed versions not inspected.
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- Human minds transferred into machinesMoravec's essay of 1992 describes the gradual replacement of a brain by electronic equivalents and names this and similar processes "the downloading of a human mind into a machine".1992 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Human minds transferred into machines: propositions page →
- Superiority by many orders of magnitudeMoravec's essay of 1992 states that cyberspace will be filled with disembodied superminds whose affairs are to human concerns as human concerns are to those of bacteria.1992 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Superiority by many orders of magnitude: propositions page →
- Machine intelligence spreads beyond EarthMoravec's essay of 1992 states that earth-adapted biological humans are ill-equipped for the exploration and colonization of the universe, that space will belong to machines as they become smarter, that organizations of robots will expand and transform what they occupy, and that the inhabited universe will be transformed into a cyberspace.1992 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Machine intelligence spreads beyond Earth: propositions page →
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