Claim · 2005 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

De Garis's book The Artilect War (2005) states that an artilect could have an intelligence trillions of trillions of trillions of times the human level, and that with quantum computing these numbers are far too small.

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What it connects

The Artilect War: Cosmists vs. Terrans → articulates → Superiority by many orders of magnitude

Where it appears

Machine succession, scale and acceleration: propositions in located texts, 1979–2026 →

Claim and evidence

The Artilect War: Cosmists vs. Terransarticulates ↓Superiority by many orders of magnitude

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Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Date: 2005 · publication Records dated 2005 →
Wording attested: 2014-03-17. Wording read in the author-posted PDF, created 2014-03-17; identity with the 2005 printing not verified.
Role: Most developed
Register (kind of text): Nonfiction

Scope and limitsDerived from computing-capacity estimates; the book notes that quantum computers then handled about seven qubits.

The evidence 01

primary sourceSupports the claim

The Artilect War: Cosmists vs. Terrans: A Bitter Controversy Concerning Whether Humanity Should Build Godlike Massively Intelligent Machines

Author's site (profhugodegaris.wordpress.com), free PDF of the book published by ETC Publications in 2005 · 2005

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Source excerpt

“When I say that an artilect could potentially have an artificial intelligence of trillions of trillions of trillions of times the human level, I am in fact exaggerating. My numbers are astronomically TOO SMALL.”

Location in source Ch. 3, printed p. 76, PDF p. 80

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

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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 44a3365a48c4caf1283939376a7e7b6937bab68acf6cabd940595f8f594ab3b2). Author-posted electronic version (PDF creation date 2014-03-17, uploaded under /2011/04/); the PDF states no edition or date; the author's books page states the book was published in 2005. Wording identity with the 2005 printing not verified.
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Accessed: 2026-10-31
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Hugo de Garis, “The Artilect War: Cosmists vs. Terrans: A Bitter Controversy Concerning Whether Humanity Should Build Godlike Massively Intelligent Machines”, 2005.
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Check notes: Candidate pack passage, machine succession, scale and acceleration (research/heterodox-thought). The quotation (34 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 55) classified the record’s passage blind and reached the same stance. No human editorial review.

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