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De Garis's paper of 1990, read in the author's 1999 web version of it, states that an ultra-intelligent artilect would have an intelligence orders of magnitude superior to human intelligence, and that a take-off point may be reached beyond which human beings will appear to artilects as mice do to humans. Copy claim link
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Date 1990 · publication Records dated 1990 → Wording attested 1999-03-20. Wording read in a print of the author's ATR web page whose footers are dated 20/03/99; the 1990 journal text (Revue Internationale de Philosophie) was not read. Claimed date 1989-05. The author's web page states 'written May 1989'. Role Context Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Missing element The criterion's scale: the passage says “orders of magnitude” without stating trillions or a gap comparable to that between humans and much simpler organisms. Scope and limits Read in a 1999 print of the author's web page; the 1990 journal wording was not compared. The page links to a "scanned version" of the journal pages, which was not read.
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The 21st. Century Artilect: Moral Dilemmas Concerning the Ultra Intelligent Machine ↗ Print of the author's ATR web page (www.hip.atr.co.jp/~degaris/Artilect-phil.html), hosted as a PDF on a University of Massachusetts Dartmouth course site; the page states it appeared in Revue Internationale de Philosophie, 1990 · 1990
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Source excerpt “having an intelligence which is orders of magnitude superior to ours” Location in source Section 2, copy p. 2 of 6
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Source details and check notes Authors Hugo de Garis Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 1486c018286f809370a18845327562ad7beb02e49df44f68bc7a7e314604cc8c). Browser print of the author's web page; each page footer reads 20/03/99 12:50; the page states 'written May 1989' and 'appeared in Revue Internationale de Philosophie, 1990'. The 1990 journal text was not read. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-31 Language English (en) Attribution Hugo de Garis, “The 21st. Century Artilect: Moral Dilemmas Concerning the Ultra Intelligent Machine”, 1990. 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 (11 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 51) read the passage as bears on; the record takes that stance under the maintainer’s decision of 2026-11-01. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
The 21st. Century Artilect: Moral Dilemmas Concerning the Ultra Intelligent Machine ↗ Print of the author's ATR web page (www.hip.atr.co.jp/~degaris/Artilect-phil.html), hosted as a PDF on a University of Massachusetts Dartmouth course site; the page states it appeared in Revue Internationale de Philosophie, 1990 · 1990
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Source excerpt “a take-off point may be reached, beyond which, we human beings will appear to artilects as mice do to us.” Location in source Section 2, copy p. 3 of 6
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Source details and check notes Authors Hugo de Garis Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 1486c018286f809370a18845327562ad7beb02e49df44f68bc7a7e314604cc8c). Browser print of the author's web page; each page footer reads 20/03/99 12:50; the page states 'written May 1989' and 'appeared in Revue Internationale de Philosophie, 1990'. The 1990 journal text was not read. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-31 Language English (en) Attribution Hugo de Garis, “The 21st. Century Artilect: Moral Dilemmas Concerning the Ultra Intelligent Machine”, 1990. 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 (20 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 51) read the passage as bears on; the record takes that stance under the maintainer’s decision of 2026-11-01. No human editorial review. Status and meaning Editorial status. Machine-checked . Machines found this record and checked it against its sources; no person accepted it individually. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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