Claim · 2005 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

De Garis's book The Artilect War (2005) states that an artilect could be built from the material of the asteroid belt and could take the form of a sphere around a star absorbing its energy.

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What it connects

The Artilect War: Cosmists vs. Terrans → articulates → Machine intelligence spreads beyond Earth

Where it appears

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

Claim and evidence

The Artilect War: Cosmists vs. Terransarticulates ↓Machine intelligence spreads beyond Earth

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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: Articulation
Register (kind of text): Nonfiction

Scope and limitsA capacity stated in the argument the author labels "Building Artilect Gods"; it concerns the solar system, not the universe as a whole.

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

“If such an artilect is built in our solar system, the material necessary for its construction could be taken from the asteroids in the asteroid belt, perhaps all of them.”

Location in source Ch. 4, section 3 ("The 'Building Artilect Gods' Argument"), printed p. 100, PDF p. 103

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 (30 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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