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Goertzel's paper of 2015, discussing Bostrom's Superintelligence, argues that the orthogonality thesis concerns only what is possible in principle, which is of little direct interest, and that some pairings of intelligence and goals, though physically possible, would be extremely unlikely under reasonable assumptions. Copy claim link
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Date 2015-11 · publication Records dated 2015 → Role Earliest located, Contesting Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Engagement Engages a premise. Disputes the relevance of in-principle independence by arguing that physically realisable minds constrain which goals go with which levels of intelligence. Scope and limits The paper asks which goals are likely to accompany which kinds of intelligence in practice; it does not argue that intelligence brings benevolent goals. Earliest located among contesting records after a machine audit of the research pack, which found it among the pack's sources.
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Superintelligence: Fears, Promises and Potentials ↗ Journal of Evolution and Technology (jetpress.org), Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies · 2015-11
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Source excerpt “This seems a strange sort of statement to preoccupy on.” Location in source Section 6, "The 'Scary Idea' redux"
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Source details and check notes Authors Ben Goertzel Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 359c04f1b987c3d82f60c9d4a295c9d61f37b8a9e51f6780d16763a84b9fa10a). HTML article as served on 2026-10-29; the page header gives "25(2) – December 2015" and "Vol. 24 Issue 2 – November 2015"; the page's character encoding is mis-declared, so quotations avoid affected characters. The cross-family check retrieved it again on 2026-10-31, with the same bytes. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-29 Language English (en) Attribution Ben Goertzel, “Superintelligence: Fears, Promises and Potentials”, 2015-11. 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, arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI (research/risk-debate). The quotation (10 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. Follows the paper's quotation of the orthogonality thesis. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
Superintelligence: Fears, Promises and Potentials ↗ Journal of Evolution and Technology (jetpress.org), Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies · 2015-11
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Source excerpt “Some intelligence/goal pairings might be physically possible but extremely unlikely to occur under reasonable assumptions” Location in source Section 6
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Source details and check notes Authors Ben Goertzel Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 359c04f1b987c3d82f60c9d4a295c9d61f37b8a9e51f6780d16763a84b9fa10a). HTML article as served on 2026-10-29; the page header gives "25(2) – December 2015" and "Vol. 24 Issue 2 – November 2015"; the page's character encoding is mis-declared, so quotations avoid affected characters. The cross-family check retrieved it again on 2026-10-31, with the same bytes. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-29 Language English (en) Attribution Ben Goertzel, “Superintelligence: Fears, Promises and Potentials”, 2015-11. 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, arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI (research/risk-debate). The quotation (15 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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Date. The page gives both "Vol. 24 Issue 2 – November 2015" and "25(2) – December 2015"; the record keeps November 2015. The cross-family check of 2026-10-31 noted the conflict.
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