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Eliezer Yudkowskyauthored ↓Re: Does a parental model work for having A.I. that can be trusted?

The mailing-list message “Re: Does a parental model work for having A.I. that can be trusted?” (1999-08-04) is sent under the name Eliezer S. Yudkowsky.

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Date: 1999-08-04 · publication

Scope and limitsA sender name on a mailing-list message as archived; it does not establish identity beyond the credited name, and quoted text by others inside the message is not the sender’s.

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Re: Does a parental model work for having A.I. that can be trusted? (Extropians mailing list)

Extropians mailing list · 1999-08-04

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Credited as “Eliezer S. Yudkowsky” (message header, sender name (address not reproduced)).

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Authors: Eliezer Yudkowsky
Version: Archive HTML as served, retrieved 2026-10-07 (SHA-256 6b82e1b19b4c1a8d6a6ec54b78b4c6b0d662f4c23f05cf46b61462e4c3e0335d); quoted lines excluded when reading the author’s text. The served archive shows later URL rewriting and does not authenticate historical bytes. Archive at extropians.weidai.com.
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Accessed: 2026-10-07
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Eliezer Yudkowsky, “Re: Does a parental model work for having A.I. that can be trusted?”, Extropians mailing list, 1999-08-04.
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