Claim · 2017-04-27 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

Kelly's post of 2017 names Bostrom's book Superintelligence as an example of treating intelligence as a single dimension.

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The Myth of a Superhuman AI → cites → Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

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The Myth of a Superhuman AIcites ↓Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

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Date: 2017-04-27 · publication Records dated 2017 →

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The Myth of a Superhuman AI

The Technium (author's blog, kk.org); also published in Wired, April 2017 (not retrieved) · 2017-04-27

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“Most technical people tend to graph intelligence the way Nick Bostrom does in his book, Superintelligence”

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Authors: Kevin Kelly
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 ab690aebf8528f12b249ba1a5c6ef28a1aa1eec29bdb27b6e287893db80ce8ab). Author's blog copy dated April 27, 2017, retrieved 2026-10-29; the Wired version was not compared. The cross-family check retrieved it again on 2026-10-31; the bytes differ, and the check compared the quoted passages.
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Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Kevin Kelly, “The Myth of a Superhuman AI”, 2017-04-27.
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Check notes: Candidate pack passage, machine succession, scale and acceleration (research/heterodox-thought). The quotation (16 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-11-01, item 134) re-read the source and agreed that the passage names the earlier text or author. No human editorial review.

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