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Faggella's essay, read as updated on 15 October 2026, states that its author has advocated AGI slow-down for more than seven years and that a frenzied AI arms race is unlikely to produce a worthy successor. Copy claim link
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Date 2023-11-24 · publication Records dated 2023 → Wording attested 2026-10-31. Both slowdown passages are absent from the archive capture of 26 February 2024 (cross-family check); they are dated by the current page, as updated on 15 October 2026 and retrieved on 2026-10-31. Read in the page as updated on 15 October 2026. Role Contesting Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Engagement States the contrary. It states advocacy of slower AGI development without engaging a stated argument for acceleration. Scope and limits The slow-down statement is in the opening note of the 2026 update; it is not shown to be part of the 2023 wording.
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A Worthy Successor – The Purpose of AGI ↗ Author's site (danfaggella.com) · 2023-11-24
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Source excerpt “I have, for 7+ years, advocated for AGI slow-down within the OECD, the United Nations, and in articles / interviews.” Location in source Opening note (square brackets)
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Source details and check notes Authors Daniel Faggella Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 6bf1e51355936be1889156fb03c11171f602b3af49c2a96d6cb05f3c2fefa5ed). current page, dated November 24, 2023 and updated October 15, 2026, with an opening note in square brackets; the earlier wording was not read. The cross-family check of 2026-11-01 compared the archive capture of 26 February 2024: it holds the galaxy aim and the list of capabilities, but not the current wording of the successor aim and its conclusion, the sentence on Kurzweil or the opening and closing notes on slowing down. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-31 Language English (en) Archive copy Open archived copy, captured 2024-02-26: A Worthy Successor – The Purpose of AGI ↗ . Captured 94 days after the recorded publication date. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2024-02-26. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-31.Attribution Daniel Faggella, “A Worthy Successor – The Purpose of AGI”, 2023-11-24. 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 (19 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 77) re-read the record’s source and agreed with its stance; its corrections were applied at admission. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
A Worthy Successor – The Purpose of AGI ↗ Author's site (danfaggella.com) · 2023-11-24
Archived copy, captured 2024-02-26: A Worthy Successor – The Purpose of AGI ↗
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Source excerpt “A frenzied AI arms race (between labs or countries) is unlikely to get us there.” Location in source Section "Concluding Note"
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Machine-checked · 2026-11-01
Source details and check notes Authors Daniel Faggella Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 6bf1e51355936be1889156fb03c11171f602b3af49c2a96d6cb05f3c2fefa5ed). current page, dated November 24, 2023 and updated October 15, 2026, with an opening note in square brackets; the earlier wording was not read. The cross-family check of 2026-11-01 compared the archive capture of 26 February 2024: it holds the galaxy aim and the list of capabilities, but not the current wording of the successor aim and its conclusion, the sentence on Kurzweil or the opening and closing notes on slowing down. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-31 Language English (en) Archive copy Open archived copy, captured 2024-02-26: A Worthy Successor – The Purpose of AGI ↗ . Captured 94 days after the recorded publication date. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2024-02-26. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-31.Attribution Daniel Faggella, “A Worthy Successor – The Purpose of AGI”, 2023-11-24. 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 (15 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 77) re-read the record’s source and agreed with its stance; its corrections were applied at admission. 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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Date. Posting date as the current page states it (24 November 2023); the capture of 26 February 2024 gives 22 December 2023. Both are as stated; neither is preferred.
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