Claim: Hanson, “Debating Yudkowsky” (2011-07-03), in “The Hanson-Yudkowsky…

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Debating Yudkowskyarticulates ↓Machine intelligence exceeding human cognition in essentially all domains

Hanson, “Debating Yudkowsky” (2011-07-03), in “The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate”, articulates E02. Hanson's summary position after the 2011 debate.

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Date: 2011-07-03 · publication
Role: Earliest located in tier 2
Register (kind of text): Nonfiction
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 limitsHanson's own statement. He affirms superintelligences "with vast and broad mental capacities" but gives no explicit comparison with humans across all domains. Tier 2 blog post.

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Debating Yudkowsky

Machine Intelligence Research Institute, The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate (2013) · 2013

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“Future superintelligences will exist, but their vast and broad mental capacities will come mainly from vast mental content and computational resources.”

Read it with this context. In context this sentence leads into Hanson's argument against architecture-driven foom ('By comparison, their general architectural innovations will be minor additions'). 'Vast and broad mental capacities' implies exceeding humans but does not say 'all domains'.

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Location in source "Debating Yudkowsky", 3 July 2011, MIRI compilation (2013) ch. 59, post body; pdf p. 509

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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.
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Accessed: 2026-10-11
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Robin Hanson, “Debating Yudkowsky”, in Machine Intelligence Research Institute, The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate (2013).
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