{"entities":[{"id":"cosmic-expansion","name":"Machine intelligence spreads beyond Earth","type":"concept","proposition":{"code":"W10","criterion":"Machine intelligence will or could spread from Earth into space and through the universe, or convert the matter of the cosmos into intelligence.","terms":[]}},{"id":"mind-transfer","name":"Human minds transferred into machines","type":"concept","proposition":{"code":"W03","criterion":"A human mind could be transferred to, copied into or continued in a machine substrate, so that human beings could themselves become machine intelligences.","terms":["upload","transmigration"]}},{"id":"moravec-1992-pigs-in-cyberspace","name":"Pigs in Cyberspace","type":"document","subtype":"Essay","description":"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.","sourceIds":["source-ht-moravec-1992-pigs-in-cyberspace"]},{"id":"vast-superiority","name":"Superiority by many orders of magnitude","type":"concept","proposition":{"code":"W05","criterion":"Machine intelligence could come to exceed human intelligence or overall cognitive capacity not moderately but by many orders of magnitude (a factor stated as trillions, or comparable to the gap between humans and much simpler organisms or matter). Capacity here means intelligence or overall cognitive capacity, not a robot's sensorimotor or output capacity.","terms":[]}}],"claims":[{"id":"ht-w03-moravec-1992-pigs-in-cyberspace","subject":"moravec-1992-pigs-in-cyberspace","predicate":"articulates_proposition","object":{"kind":"entity","entityId":"mind-transfer"},"topic":"ideas","statement":"Moravec'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\".","time":{"kind":"event","date":"1992","basis":"publication","note":"Year on the author's page; the publication list gives April 1992 and the LITA volume of 1992."},"derivation":"explicit","resolution":"supported","editorialState":"seed","evidenceIds":["evidence-ht-w03-moravec-1992-pigs-in-cyberspace-1","evidence-ht-w03-moravec-1992-pigs-in-cyberspace-2"],"attributes":{"thought":{"roles":["articulation"],"register":"nonfiction","attested":{"date":"1999-04-27","note":"The cross-family check found the quoted passages in the archive capture of 27 April 1999; the file's bytes differ elsewhere."}}}},{"id":"ht-w05-moravec-1992-pigs-in-cyberspace","subject":"moravec-1992-pigs-in-cyberspace","predicate":"articulates_proposition","object":{"kind":"entity","entityId":"vast-superiority"},"topic":"ideas","statement":"Moravec'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.","time":{"kind":"event","date":"1992","basis":"publication","note":"Year on the author's page; the publication list gives April 1992 and the LITA volume of 1992."},"derivation":"explicit","resolution":"supported","editorialState":"seed","evidenceIds":["evidence-ht-w05-moravec-1992-pigs-in-cyberspace-1"],"attributes":{"thought":{"roles":["articulation"],"register":"nonfiction","attested":{"date":"2026-10-31","note":"Wording read in the copy retrieved on 2026-10-31. An Internet Archive capture of 1999-04-27 exists but could not be compared, since the Internet Archive refused the research pack's retrievals; if the capture is found identical, the wording is attested from 1999-04-27. Not compared with any printed version."}}}},{"id":"ht-w10-moravec-1992-pigs-in-cyberspace","subject":"moravec-1992-pigs-in-cyberspace","predicate":"articulates_proposition","object":{"kind":"entity","entityId":"cosmic-expansion"},"topic":"ideas","statement":"Moravec'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.","time":{"kind":"event","date":"1992","basis":"publication","note":"Year on the author's page."},"derivation":"explicit","resolution":"supported","editorialState":"seed","evidenceIds":["evidence-ht-w10-moravec-1992-pigs-in-cyberspace-1","evidence-ht-w10-moravec-1992-pigs-in-cyberspace-2","evidence-ht-w10-moravec-1992-pigs-in-cyberspace-3"],"attributes":{"thought":{"roles":["articulation"],"register":"nonfiction","attested":{"date":"1999-04-27","note":"The cross-family check found the quoted passages in the archive capture of 27 April 1999; the file's bytes differ elsewhere."}}}}],"sources":[{"id":"source-ht-moravec-1992-pigs-in-cyberspace","documentId":"moravec-1992-pigs-in-cyberspace","title":"Pigs in Cyberspace","authors":["Hans Moravec"],"publisher":"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)","publicationDate":"1992","version":"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.","evidenceUrl":"https://frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/project.archive/general.articles/1992/CyberPigs.html","language":"en"}],"evidence":[{"id":"evidence-ht-w03-moravec-1992-pigs-in-cyberspace-1","claimId":"ht-w03-moravec-1992-pigs-in-cyberspace","sourceId":"source-ht-moravec-1992-pigs-in-cyberspace","sourceRole":"primary","support":"supports","verification":"machine_checked","retrievalRoute":"direct"},{"id":"evidence-ht-w03-moravec-1992-pigs-in-cyberspace-2","claimId":"ht-w03-moravec-1992-pigs-in-cyberspace","sourceId":"source-ht-moravec-1992-pigs-in-cyberspace","support":"supports","verification":"machine_checked","retrievalRoute":"direct"},{"id":"evidence-ht-w05-moravec-1992-pigs-in-cyberspace-1","claimId":"ht-w05-moravec-1992-pigs-in-cyberspace","sourceId":"source-ht-moravec-1992-pigs-in-cyberspace","sourceRole":"primary","support":"supports","verification":"machine_checked","retrievalRoute":"direct"},{"id":"evidence-ht-w10-moravec-1992-pigs-in-cyberspace-1","claimId":"ht-w10-moravec-1992-pigs-in-cyberspace","sourceId":"source-ht-moravec-1992-pigs-in-cyberspace","sourceRole":"primary","support":"supports","verification":"machine_checked","retrievalRoute":"direct"},{"id":"evidence-ht-w10-moravec-1992-pigs-in-cyberspace-2","claimId":"ht-w10-moravec-1992-pigs-in-cyberspace","sourceId":"source-ht-moravec-1992-pigs-in-cyberspace","support":"supports","verification":"machine_checked","retrievalRoute":"direct"},{"id":"evidence-ht-w10-moravec-1992-pigs-in-cyberspace-3","claimId":"ht-w10-moravec-1992-pigs-in-cyberspace","sourceId":"source-ht-moravec-1992-pigs-in-cyberspace","support":"supports","verification":"machine_checked","retrievalRoute":"direct"}],"at":{"entities":[1938,1970,1975,1995],"claims":[5425,5449,5507],"sources":[1864],"evidence":[7318,7319,7362,7467,7468,7469]},"index":{"byClaim":[["ht-w03-moravec-1992-pigs-in-cyberspace",["propositions:machine-succession"]],["ht-w05-moravec-1992-pigs-in-cyberspace",["propositions:machine-succession"]],["ht-w10-moravec-1992-pigs-in-cyberspace",["propositions:machine-succession"]]],"marks":[],"chronicle":{"years":[{"year":1863,"topics":{"ideas":5},"stated":0},{"year":1865,"topics":{"ideas":1},"stated":0},{"year":1872,"topics":{"ideas":7},"stated":0},{"year":1943,"topics":{"ideas":1},"stated":0},{"year":1947,"topics":{"ideas":2},"stated":0},{"year":1950,"topics":{"ideas":7},"stated":0},{"year":1951,"topics":{"ideas":5},"stated":0},{"year":1952,"topics":{"ideas":2},"stated":0},{"year":1955,"topics":{"ideas":31},"stated":0},{"year":1956,"topics":{"ideas":1},"stated":0},{"year":1957,"topics":{"ideas":1},"stated":0},{"year":1958,"topics":{"ideas":3},"stated":0},{"year":1959,"topics":{"ideas":6},"stated":0},{"year":1960,"topics":{"ideas":11},"stated":0},{"year":1961,"topics":{"ideas":10},"stated":0},{"year":1965,"topics":{"ideas":8},"stated":0},{"year":1966,"topics":{"ideas":20},"stated":0},{"year":1968,"topics":{"ideas":5},"stated":0},{"year":1969,"topics":{"ideas":2},"stated":0},{"year":1971,"topics":{"ideas":4},"stated":0},{"year":1972,"topics":{"ideas":1},"stated":0},{"year":1973,"topics":{"ideas":2},"stated":0},{"year":1974,"topics":{"ideas":2},"stated":0},{"year":1975,"topics":{"ideas":1},"stated":0},{"year":1976,"topics":{"ideas":1},"stated":0},{"year":1977,"topics":{"people":2,"ideas":8},"stated":0},{"year":1979,"topics":{"ideas":10},"stated":0},{"year":1980,"topics":{"ideas":2},"stated":0},{"year":1981,"topics":{"people":2},"stated":0},{"year":1982,"topics":{"ideas":4},"stated":0},{"year":1983,"topics":{"ideas":4},"stated":0},{"year":1984,"topics":{"ideas":21},"stated":0},{"year":1985,"topics":{"ideas":9},"stated":0},{"year":1986,"topics":{"ideas":18},"stated":0},{"year":1987,"topics":{"ideas":1},"stated":0},{"year":1988,"topics":{"ideas":6},"stated":0},{"year":1989,"topics":{"ideas":25},"stated":0},{"year":1990,"topics":{"ideas":9},"stated":0},{"year":1991,"topics":{"ideas":14},"stated":0},{"year":1992,"topics":{"ideas":15},"stated":0},{"year":1993,"topics":{"ideas":21,"people":3},"stated":0},{"year":1994,"topics":{"ideas":18},"stated":0},{"year":1995,"topics":{"ideas":10,"people":1},"stated":0},{"year":1996,"topics":{"ideas":71},"stated":0},{"year":1997,"topics":{"ideas":17},"stated":0},{"year":1998,"topics":{"ideas":50},"stated":0},{"year":1999,"topics":{"ideas":31,"people":1,"institutions":1},"stated":0},{"year":2000,"topics":{"ideas":70},"stated":0},{"year":2001,"topics":{"ideas":52},"stated":0},{"year":2002,"topics":{"ideas":30},"stated":0},{"year":2003,"topics":{"ideas":9},"stated":0},{"year":2004,"topics":{"ideas":14,"people":3},"stated":0},{"year":2005,"topics":{"ideas":20,"people":1},"stated":0},{"year":2006,"topics":{"ideas":26,"people":1},"stated":0},{"year":2007,"topics":{"ideas":21},"stated":0},{"year":2008,"topics":{"ideas":59,"people":3,"institutions":1},"stated":0},{"year":2009,"topics":{"ideas":12,"people":1},"stated":0},{"year":2010,"topics":{"people":3,"ideas":13,"institutions":1,"governance":4},"stated":0},{"year":2011,"topics":{"people":3,"ideas":15,"institutions":2},"stated":0},{"year":2012,"topics":{"people":4,"ideas":19,"institutions":2},"stated":0},{"year":2013,"topics":{"ideas":52,"people":4,"institutions":2,"capital":1},"stated":0},{"year":2014,"topics":{"institutions":2,"ideas":57,"people":5},"stated":0},{"year":2015,"topics":{"people":23,"ideas":133,"institutions":3,"capital":1},"stated":0},{"year":2016,"topics":{"ideas":88,"people":2},"stated":0},{"year":2017,"topics":{"people":16,"institutions":2,"ideas":130,"governance":2},"stated":0},{"year":2018,"topics":{"people":9,"ideas":159,"institutions":8,"governance":1},"stated":0},{"year":2019,"topics":{"capital":1,"compute":1,"people":11,"governance":19,"ideas":175,"institutions":4},"stated":0},{"year":2020,"topics":{"people":6,"ideas":98,"institutions":1,"governance":2},"stated":0},{"year":2021,"topics":{"people":27,"ideas":177,"compute":1,"institutions":23,"governance":4,"capital":6},"stated":0},{"year":2022,"topics":{"people":15,"ideas":228,"institutions":6,"governance":3,"compute":2,"capital":1},"stated":0},{"year":2023,"topics":{"capital":14,"compute":7,"institutions":24,"people":54,"governance":179,"ideas":409},"stated":0},{"year":2024,"topics":{"capital":31,"compute":19,"governance":282,"people":103,"ideas":180,"institutions":32},"stated":1},{"year":2025,"topics":{"governance":548,"compute":69,"capital":61,"people":145,"institutions":26,"ideas":180},"stated":7},{"year":2026,"topics":{"governance":444,"capital":31,"compute":32,"institutions":23,"ideas":97,"people":139},"stated":19},{"year":2027,"topics":{},"stated":8},{"year":2028,"topics":{},"stated":6},{"year":2029,"topics":{},"stated":3},{"year":2030,"topics":{},"stated":3},{"year":2032,"topics":{},"stated":2},{"year":2035,"topics":{},"stated":2},{"year":2039,"topics":{},"stated":1},{"year":2042,"topics":{},"stated":1},{"year":2050,"topics":{},"stated":1}],"scheduled":[],"statedBy":[]},"collections":[{"target":{"kind":"propositions","id":"superintelligence"},"title":"Propositions about superintelligence, 1863–2022","claimIds":[],"records":[]},{"target":{"kind":"propositions","id":"risk-debate"},"title":"Arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI","claimIds":[],"records":[]},{"target":{"kind":"propositions","id":"yudkowsky-arguments"},"title":"Eliezer Yudkowsky’s arguments on common claims about AI, 1996–2026","claimIds":[],"records":[]},{"target":{"kind":"propositions","id":"machine-succession"},"title":"Machine succession, scale and acceleration: propositions in located texts, 1979–2026","claimIds":["ht-w03-moravec-1992-pigs-in-cyberspace","ht-w05-moravec-1992-pigs-in-cyberspace","ht-w10-moravec-1992-pigs-in-cyberspace"],"records":[]},{"target":{"kind":"propositions","id":"economics-of-machine-intelligence"},"title":"Economics of machine intelligence","claimIds":[],"records":[]},{"target":{"kind":"propositions","id":"orbital-compute-arguments"},"title":"Arguments about compute in orbit","claimIds":[],"records":[]},{"target":{"kind":"propositions","id":"ai-bio-arguments"},"title":"Arguments about AI and biological risk","claimIds":[],"records":[]},{"target":{"kind":"propositions","id":"ai-in-science"},"title":"AI in science","claimIds":[],"records":[]},{"target":{"kind":"documents"},"title":"Frontier safety frameworks","claimIds":[]},{"target":{"kind":"compare","id":"frontier-safety-frameworks"},"title":"Compare frameworks","claimIds":[]},{"target":{"kind":"control","id":"openai"},"title":"OpenAI’s control structure, 2015–2026","claimIds":[]},{"target":{"kind":"control","id":"anthropic"},"title":"Anthropic’s control structure, 2021–2026","claimIds":[]},{"target":{"kind":"commitments"},"title":"External commitments and obligations","claimIds":[]},{"target":{"kind":"question","id":"frameworks-to-obligations"},"title":"Frameworks, commitments and legal obligations, 2023–2026","claimIds":[]},{"target":{"kind":"reading"},"title":"Founding and early leadership","claimIds":[]}]},"version":"1e2h0wj"}