Yudkowsky’s SL4 message of 12 April 2001, answering a proposal to make his AI project open source, gives his reasons for keeping it closed: anyone could outrace the main project by adding computing power to their own AI, a risk for Friendliness, and a closed project can be opened later but not the reverse.

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