Claim · 2001-05 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

Goertzel's profile of de Garis (file dated May 2001) states that he doubts there will be another world war and that, if there is one, it would centre on religion, money and national pride rather than on artilects, while holding the conflict between AI boosters and detractors to be real.

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What it connects

Hugo de Garis → contests → Conflict over building superhuman machines

Where it appears

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Claim and evidence

Hugo de Gariscontests ↓Conflict over building superhuman machines

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Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Date: 2001-05 · publication Records dated 2001 →
Role: Contesting
Register (kind of text): Nonfiction
Engagement: Engages a premise. Disputes the premise that the issue of building artilects would be the axis of a large-scale war.

Scope and limitsThe profile also describes de Garis's work and person; only the passage disputing the forecast is recorded. The date is that of the file's embedded document properties. The page shows no byline; attribution to Goertzel rests on its place on his site (goertzel.org/benzine) and the embedded document properties (author 'ben'), not on a statement in the text.

The evidence 02

primary sourceSupports the claim

Hugo de Garis

Author's site (goertzel.org/benzine/) · 2001-05

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Source excerpt

“Personally, I find his political prognostications much less convincing than his scientific work.”

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How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

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Source details and check notes

Authors: Ben Goertzel
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 999dea13bcf790cb76d892ce4e325056ca2d892f8443ab639524721c604f2e7c). Current page; Word-generated HTML whose embedded document properties give author 'ben', company 'Intelligenesis Corp.', and created and last-saved 2001-05-25; the visible page states no date and displays no byline.
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Accessed: 2026-10-31
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Ben Goertzel, “Hugo de Garis”, 2001-05.
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, machine succession, scale and acceleration (research/heterodox-thought). The quotation (13 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. No human editorial review.

primary sourceSupports the claim

Hugo de Garis

Author's site (goertzel.org/benzine/) · 2001-05

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Source excerpt

“If there is another world war, which I doubt, I suspect it will be centered around old fashioned concerns like religion and money and national pride rather than being focused on artilects in any direct way.”

Location in source penultimate section

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-11-01

Source details and check notes

Authors: Ben Goertzel
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 999dea13bcf790cb76d892ce4e325056ca2d892f8443ab639524721c604f2e7c). Current page; Word-generated HTML whose embedded document properties give author 'ben', company 'Intelligenesis Corp.', and created and last-saved 2001-05-25; the visible page states no date and displays no byline.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-31
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Ben Goertzel, “Hugo de Garis”, 2001-05.
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, machine succession, scale and acceleration (research/heterodox-thought). The quotation (36 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. No human editorial review.

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