# Edge Supplemental Promotion Queue Execution - 2026-09-12 This ledger records the repository-level adjudication of the 60-candidate supplemental Edge queue. ## Outcome - **New canonical reminders:** 45 - **Newly promoted Edge response objects:** 40 - **Already-covered candidates held:** 14 - **Editorial companion held:** 1 - **Existing reminders reclassified:** 4 - **New bounded categories:** 7 - **Official Edge pages checked:** 53 The queue's 436/2,782 arithmetic described the pre-report snapshot. Against the live post-report vault, this pass advances the archive from 521 to 561 promoted response objects, from 520 to 565 canonical reminder files, and from 2,697 to 2,657 unpromoted response objects. ## Category additions - `Selection` - `Personhood` - `Surveillance` - `Extended Mind` - `Capture` - `Planetary Mind` - `Thermodynamics` ## Reclassified canonical reminders - [[reminders/Extended Mind/Personalized Software Could Become Part of the Person by Andy Clark|Personalized Software Could Become Part of the Person by Andy Clark]] — `Extended Mind` - [[reminders/Planetary Mind/A Sensor-Woven Earth Could Develop Planetary Self-Awareness by Ivan Amato|A Sensor-Woven Earth Could Develop Planetary Self-Awareness by Ivan Amato]] — `Planetary Mind` - [[reminders/Thermodynamics/Intelligence May Be a Process That Maximizes Future Freedom of Action by Alexander Wissner-Gross|Intelligence May Be a Process That Maximizes Future Freedom of Action by Alexander Wissner-Gross]] — `Thermodynamics` - [[reminders/Personhood/When Will Human Being Stop Being a Meaningful Category by James J. O'Donnell|When Will Human Being Stop Being a Meaningful Category by James J. O'Donnell]] — `Personhood` ## Promoted reminders - **EDGE2016-119:** [[reminders/Machine Succession/Inorganic Intelligence Will Evolve for Billions of Years by Martin Rees|Inorganic Intelligence Will Evolve for Billions of Years by Martin Rees]] — [official Edge source](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26665) - **EDGE2000-034:** [[reminders/Extended Mind/We Are Already Mental Cyborgs by Andy Clark|We Are Already Mental Cyborgs by Andy Clark]] — [official Edge source](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/11365) - **EDGE1999-098:** [[reminders/Machine Succession/The Download Will Proceed the Other Way by George Dyson|The Download Will Proceed the Other Way by George Dyson]] — [official Edge source](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/10642) - **EDGE2013-136:** [[reminders/Mind Upload/Backed-Up Minds Lose Only Their Latest Memories by Max Tegmark|Backed-Up Minds Lose Only Their Latest Memories by Max Tegmark]] — [official Edge source](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/23690) - **EDGE2013-136:** [[reminders/Identity/Copyable Memory Dissolves the Line Between You and Me by Max Tegmark|Copyable Memory Dissolves the Line Between You and Me by Max Tegmark]] — [official Edge source](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/23690) - **EDGE2014-182:** [[reminders/AI Control/A Technology May Halt Science to Preserve Itself by George Dyson|A Technology May Halt Science to Preserve Itself by George Dyson]] — [official Edge source](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/25266) - **EDGE2016-029:** [[reminders/Selection/One Germline Tweak Can Compel a Species to Go Extinct by Stewart Brand|One Germline Tweak Can Compel a Species to Go Extinct by Stewart Brand]] — [official Edge source](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26769) - **EDGE2010-054:** [[reminders/Extended Mind/Our Minds Now Run on Internet Prosthetic Brains by Clifford Pickover|Our Minds Now Run on Internet Prosthetic Brains by Clifford Pickover]] — [official Edge source](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/11216) - **EDGE2010-054:** [[reminders/Identity/Who Is the Me That Is Making the Decision by Clifford Pickover|Who Is the Me That Is Making the Decision by Clifford Pickover]] — [official Edge source](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/11216) - **EDGE2009-093:** [[reminders/Memory/We Can Now Remember Everything That Ever Happens to Us by Charles Seife|We Can Now Remember Everything That Ever Happens to Us by Charles Seife]] — [official Edge source](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/10546) - **EDGE2009-005:** [[reminders/Memory/The Great Mistake Will Be Confusing Memory With Storage by Kevin Slavin|The Great Mistake Will Be Confusing Memory With Storage by Kevin Slavin]] — [official Edge source](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/11986) - **EDGE2006-032:** [[reminders/Existential Risk/The Most Dangerous Idea Was the Capacity for Ideas by Seth Lloyd|The Most Dangerous Idea Was the Capacity for Ideas by Seth Lloyd]] — [official Edge source](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/11258) - **EDGE2004-156:** [[reminders/Deep Time/Intelligent Life Must Convert the Universe Into a Biosphere by Frank Tipler|Intelligent Life Must Convert the Universe Into a Biosphere by Frank Tipler]] — [official Edge source](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/10115) - **EDGE2016-199:** [[reminders/Machine Succession/Intelligence Does Not Arise From the Medium That Embodies It by Pamela McCorduck|Intelligence Does Not Arise From the Medium That Embodies It by Pamela McCorduck]] — [official Edge source](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26557) - **EDGE2013-142:** [[reminders/Digital Afterlife/Your Electronic Tattoos Will Outlive Your Body by Juan Enriquez|Your Electronic Tattoos Will Outlive Your Body by Juan Enriquez]] — [official Edge source](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/23681) - **EDGE2014-125:** [[reminders/Personhood/Citizenship Needs a Turing Test for Beings We Live Among by Steve Fuller|Citizenship Needs a Turing Test for Beings We Live Among by Steve Fuller]] — [official Edge source](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/25396) - **EDGE2014-125:** [[reminders/Personhood/From Carbon to Silicon Every Candidate Being Needs a Standard by Steve Fuller|From Carbon to Silicon Every Candidate Being Needs a Standard by Steve Fuller]] — [official Edge source](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/25396) - **EDGE2009-128:** [[reminders/Neural Interfaces/Radiotelepathy Will Let Us Feel a Wolf-Pack Hunting by Freeman Dyson|Radiotelepathy Will Let Us Feel a Wolf-Pack Hunting by Freeman Dyson]] — [official Edge source](https://www.edge.org/responses/what-will-change-everything) - **EDGE2006-037:** [[reminders/Capture/Technology Delivers Fake Fitness Better Than Real Fitness by Geoffrey Miller|Technology Delivers Fake Fitness Better Than Real Fitness by Geoffrey Miller]] — [official Edge source](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/11475) - **EDGE2005-029:** [[reminders/Mind Upload/A Copy Made of Other Materials Would Think It Was You by Clifford Pickover|A Copy Made of Other Materials Would Think It Was You by Clifford Pickover]] — [official Edge source](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/11600) - **EDGE2008-038:** [[reminders/Identity/Almost No Atom Stays With You From Cradle to Grave by Tor Nørretranders|Almost No Atom Stays With You From Cradle to Grave by Tor Nørretranders]] — [official Edge source](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/11492) - **EDGE2004-149:** [[reminders/Cybernetics/The Representation Eclipses the Thing It Represents by W. Daniel Hillis|The Representation Eclipses the Thing It Represents by W. Daniel Hillis]] — [official Edge source](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/10167) - **EDGE2004-067:** [[reminders/Information/The Universe Is a Quantum Computer by Seth Lloyd|The Universe Is a Quantum Computer by Seth Lloyd]] — [official Edge source](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/11090) - **EDGE2017-038:** [[reminders/Selection/Eugenics Is Not Only Possible It Is Trivial by Gregory Cochran|Eugenics Is Not Only Possible It Is Trivial by Gregory Cochran]] — [official Edge source](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27199) - **EDGE2005-113:** [[reminders/Consciousness/Past a Connectivity Threshold a System Begins to Run Itself by Stanislas Dehaene|Past a Connectivity Threshold a System Begins to Run Itself by Stanislas Dehaene]] — [official Edge source](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/10516) - **EDGE2001B-081:** [[reminders/Digital Life/We Cannot Build Life Because We Cannot Define It by Rodney A. Brooks|We Cannot Build Life Because We Cannot Define It by Rodney A. Brooks]] — [official Edge source](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/12040) - **EDGE1999-089:** [[reminders/Planetary Mind/Humanity Becomes a Single Hive Mind by Clifford Pickover|Humanity Becomes a Single Hive Mind by Clifford Pickover]] — [official Edge source](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/10728) - **EDGE1999-084:** [[reminders/Cybernetics/The Clock Converted Time Into a Reality Independent of Us by W. Daniel Hillis|The Clock Converted Time Into a Reality Independent of Us by W. Daniel Hillis]] — [official Edge source](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/10999) - **EDGE2010-103:** [[reminders/Risk Debate/We Created the System but We Did Not Design It by W. Daniel Hillis|We Created the System but We Did Not Design It by W. Daniel Hillis]] — [official Edge source](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/10707) - **EDGE2008-127:** [[reminders/Capture/A Technical Structure Is Not a Metaphor for Liberty by Nicholas G. Carr|A Technical Structure Is Not a Metaphor for Liberty by Nicholas G. Carr]] — [official Edge source](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/10641) - **EDGE2006-057:** [[reminders/Consciousness/Consciousness Is a Sliver of the Machine We Call Intelligence by Mahzarin Banaji|Consciousness Is a Sliver of the Machine We Call Intelligence by Mahzarin Banaji]] — [official Edge source](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/10951) - **EDGE2006-102:** [[reminders/Existential Risk/We Are the First Humans Who Could Destroy the Whole World by Howard Gardner|We Are the First Humans Who Could Destroy the Whole World by Howard Gardner]] — [official Edge source](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/10366) - **EDGE2013-071:** [[reminders/Information/What Is a Computer but a Copying Machine by John Naughton|What Is a Computer but a Copying Machine by John Naughton]] — [official Edge source](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/23789) - **EDGE2013-126:** [[reminders/Neural Interfaces/Entire Movies Can Be Decoded From the Cortex by Stanislas Dehaene|Entire Movies Can Be Decoded From the Cortex by Stanislas Dehaene]] — [official Edge source](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/23704) - **EDGE2013-083:** [[reminders/Surveillance/Biometric Streams Will Predict Your Mental State by Melanie Swan|Biometric Streams Will Predict Your Mental State by Melanie Swan]] — [official Edge source](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/23774) - **EDGE2014-081:** [[reminders/Consciousness/The Funeral of Truer Perception Will Bring Regime Change by Donald D. Hoffman|The Funeral of Truer Perception Will Bring Regime Change by Donald D. Hoffman]] — [official Edge source](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/25450) - **EDGE2004-050:** [[reminders/Simulation/The Physical World Is a Species-Specific User Interface by Donald D. Hoffman|The Physical World Is a Species-Specific User Interface by Donald D. Hoffman]] — [official Edge source](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/11284) - **EDGE2009-131:** [[reminders/Space Survival/Someday the Gravity Well We Escape Will Be the Sun by David Dalrymple|Someday the Gravity Well We Escape Will Be the Sun by David Dalrymple]] — [official Edge source](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/10631) - **EDGE2012-080:** [[reminders/Machine Succession/Our Descendants May Be Artificial Life Forms by John C. Mather|Our Descendants May Be Artificial Life Forms by John C. Mather]] — [official Edge source](https://www.edge.org/responses/what-is-your-favorite-deep-elegant-or-beautiful-explanation) - **EDGE2016-088:** [[reminders/Simulation/One Virtual Reality Is Being Embedded Into Another by Thomas Metzinger|One Virtual Reality Is Being Embedded Into Another by Thomas Metzinger]] — [official Edge source](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26699) - **EDGE2006-078:** [[reminders/Selection/Ambitious Parents Will Modify Their Own Babies by Freeman Dyson|Ambitious Parents Will Modify Their Own Babies by Freeman Dyson]] — [official Edge source](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/10764) - **EDGE2017-194:** [[reminders/Consciousness/If the Mind Cannot Understand Itself Nothing Is Fully Intelligible by Nicholas G. Carr|If the Mind Cannot Understand Itself Nothing Is Fully Intelligible by Nicholas G. Carr]] — [official Edge source](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27017) - **EDGE2017-110:** [[reminders/AI Control/Smart Technology Is Not Smart Until It Can Decenter by Gary Klein|Smart Technology Is Not Smart Until It Can Decenter by Gary Klein]] — [official Edge source](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27119) - **EDGE2018-201:** [[reminders/Machine Succession/The Last Fully Biological Human at the Last Supper by Lorraine Justice|The Last Fully Biological Human at the Last Supper by Lorraine Justice]] — [official Edge source](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27524) - **EDGE2018-249:** [[reminders/Capture/What Will Be the Use of the Ninety-Nine Percent by David Haig|What Will Be the Use of the Ninety-Nine Percent by David Haig]] — [official Edge source](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27465) ## Held candidates - **EDGE2004-001 — Intelligence Is Never Simple Enough to Understand by George Dyson:** already contained in [[reminders/AI Control/Intelligent Systems May Be Too Complex to Understand by George Dyson|the canonical reminder]] - **EDGE2016-119 — Organic Intelligence Is Just a Brief Prelude by Martin Rees:** The dossier directs that the shorter Rees sentence remain a companion to the stronger passage from the same response. - **EDGE2002-098 — A More Durable Substrate Will Not Settle Who You Are by Ray Kurzweil:** already contained in [[reminders/Mind Upload/A Perfect Copy of My Pattern Would Not Necessarily Be Me by Ray Kurzweil|the canonical reminder]] - **EDGE2000-034 — Your Software Agents Will Count as Part of You by Andy Clark:** already contained in [[reminders/Extended Mind/Personalized Software Could Become Part of the Person by Andy Clark|the canonical reminder]] - **EDGE2009-130 — When Machines Self-Replicate They No Longer Need Us by Susan Blackmore:** already contained in [[reminders/Machine Succession/Self-Replicating Artificial Meme Machines Would No Longer Need Us by Susan Blackmore|the canonical reminder]] - **EDGE2009-130 — Our Survival Will Be of No Consequence to Them by Susan Blackmore:** already contained in [[reminders/Machine Succession/Self-Replicating Artificial Meme Machines Would No Longer Need Us by Susan Blackmore|the canonical reminder]] - **EDGE2000-026 — The Entire World Will Constitute a Glass House by Ivan Amato:** already contained in [[reminders/Planetary Mind/A Sensor-Woven Earth Could Develop Planetary Self-Awareness by Ivan Amato|the canonical reminder]] - **EDGE2008-053 — The Brain Is Always the Latest Technology We Have by Rodney A. Brooks:** already contained in [[reminders/Information/We Keep Explaining the Brain With Our Most Advanced Technology by Rodney A. Brooks|the canonical reminder]] - **EDGE2001B-026 — Machines Are All Around Us Thinking Up a Storm by Pamela McCorduck:** already contained in [[reminders/Machine Succession/Machines Are Already Thinking Up a Storm by Pamela McCorduck|the canonical reminder]] - **EDGE2013-003 — We Unlocked the Twin Nuclei of Cell and Atom by Eric R. Weinstein:** already contained in [[reminders/Existential Risk/Synthetic Biological and Digital Life Put Humanity in Genuinely Novel Territory by Eric R. Weinstein|the canonical reminder]] - **EDGE2013-003 — Surviving God-Like Powers Requires More Than Mastery by Eric R. Weinstein:** already contained in [[reminders/Existential Risk/Synthetic Biological and Digital Life Put Humanity in Genuinely Novel Territory by Eric R. Weinstein|the canonical reminder]] - **EDGE2013-005 — We Are Working Hard at Eradicating Death by Kate Jeffery:** already contained in [[reminders/Digital Afterlife/Human Intelligence Is Trying to Eradicate Death by Kate Jeffery|the canonical reminder]] - **EDGE2014-027 — Intelligence Is a Process That Maximizes Future Freedom by Alexander Wissner-Gross:** already contained in [[reminders/Thermodynamics/Intelligence May Be a Process That Maximizes Future Freedom of Action by Alexander Wissner-Gross|the canonical reminder]] - **EDGE2018-224 — When Will Human Being Cease to Be a Meaningful Category by James J. O'Donnell:** already contained in [[reminders/Personhood/When Will Human Being Stop Being a Meaningful Category by James J. O'Donnell|the canonical reminder]] - **EDGE2018-154 — The Last Minute Before Superintelligence and the First After by Bruno Giussani:** already contained in [[reminders/Machine Succession/The Minute Before and After Artificial Superintelligence by Bruno Giussani|the canonical reminder]] ## Source artifacts retained - `EDGE2009-005` retains Edge's published `confusememory` artifact and attributes the report to Kevin Slavin reporting Thomas Bayrle. - `EDGE2012-080` retains Edge's published `descendents` spelling. - `EDGE2008-038` retains the official page's nonstandard verb agreement. - `EDGE2009-131` retains the official page's compact ellipsis.