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Hanson, “Debating Yudkowsky” (2011-07-03), in “The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate”, bears on E01. Hanson concludes his five reasons why powerful architectural insights are rare. Copy claim link
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Date 2011-07-03 · publication Role Context Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Missing element Doubts that one team's architectural innovation could take it from tiny to world takeover within weeks; the passage accepts future superintelligences and does not deny accelerating AI self-improvement in general. Tier Tier 2. Blog debate (2008 Overcoming Bias posts) between an economist and a non-economist: tier 2 as an online debate; the maintainer confirmed tier 2 for the debate on 2026-10-12. Scope and limits Hanson's own view; it contests the fast, local form of E01 and not AI self-improvement in general. Tier 2.
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Debating Yudkowsky ↗ Machine Intelligence Research Institute, The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate (2013) · 2013
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Source excerpt “It thus seems quite unlikely that one AI team could find an architectural innovation powerful enough to let it go from tiny to taking over the world within a few weeks.” Location in source "Debating Yudkowsky", 3 July 2011, MIRI compilation (2013) ch. 59, post body; pdf p. 509
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Source details and check notes Authors Robin Hanson Version Chapter 59 of The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate (Machine Intelligence Research Institute, 2013), which compiles the 2008 Overcoming Bias debate with later posts; the compilation heads the post with its date. Current MIRI PDF, retrieved 2026-10-11. SHA-256 6b6dfd0416402e1776d7ddcece95298df2df0ed9bc0bd4a6f4bd81c4b1e5102a. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-11 Language English (en) Attribution Robin Hanson, “Debating Yudkowsky”, in Machine Intelligence Research Institute, The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate (2013). Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage E01-11 (research/economics-mainstream/esoteric). The quotation (31 words) matched the retrieved current copy (SHA-256 6b6dfd0416402e1776d7ddcece95298df2df0ed9bc0bd4a6f4bd81c4b1e5102a) in the pack's verification of 2026-10-15. Re-checked at admission on 2026-10-16 against a copy retrieved that day. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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