Claim · 2017-12-06 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

Yudkowsky's post of 6 December 2017 replies to Chollet's essay "The impossibility of intelligence explosion", which it names.

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A reply to Francois Chollet on intelligence explosion → cites → The impossibility of intelligence explosion

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A reply to Francois Chollet on intelligence explosioncites ↓The impossibility of intelligence explosion

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Date: 2017-12-06 · publication Records dated 2017 →

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A reply to Francois Chollet on intelligence explosion

Machine Intelligence Research Institute blog · 2017-12-06

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“This is a reply to Francois Chollet, the inventor of the Keras wrapper for the Tensorflow and Theano deep learning systems, on his essay “The impossibility of intelligence explosion.”

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Authors: Eliezer Yudkowsky
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 3f284720c9373c722e8d7df5ccf28cacac802dc6681800e038196c2dc40de45c). Current MIRI blog page, dated December 6, 2017, retrieved 2026-10-29. The cross-family check retrieved it again on 2026-10-31; the bytes differ, and the check compared the quoted passages.
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Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Eliezer Yudkowsky, “A reply to Francois Chollet on intelligence explosion”, 2017-12-06.
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Check notes: Candidate pack passage, arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI (research/risk-debate). The quotation (29 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.

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