Claim · 2002-06-23 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

Yudkowsky's SL4 reply of 2002-06-23 uses 'AGI', and quotes Goertzel using it, for a general artificial mind.

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Re: Seed AI (was: How hard a Singularity?) → uses the name →

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Re: Seed AI (was: How hard a Singularity?)uses the name ↓

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Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Date: 2002-06-23 · publication Records dated 2002 →

Scope and limitsA use in a list exchange; the quoted line is Goertzel's (relay), the second passage Yudkowsky's own.

The evidence 02

primary sourceSupports the claim

Re: Seed AI (was: How hard a Singularity?) (SL4 mailing list)

SL4 mailing list · 2002-06-23

Archived copy, captured 2026-03-09: Re: Seed AI (was: How hard a Singularity?) (SL4 mailing list)

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Source excerpt

“the most important content of an AGI mind will be things that”

Location in source Quoted text from Goertzel at the head of the reply

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-31

Source details and check notes

Authors: Eliezer Yudkowsky
Version: Archive HTML as served, retrieved 2026-10-07 (SHA-256 8fd31c8bb942dfb3da4906a254fc68c2f4112869ebe5f9811a6f54dc977d7310); quoted lines excluded when reading the author’s text. The served archive shows later URL rewriting and does not authenticate historical bytes. Archive at sl4.org.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-07
Language: English (en)
Archive copy: Open archived copy, captured 2026-03-09: Re: Seed AI (was: How hard a Singularity?) (SL4 mailing list). Captured 8660 days after the recorded publication date. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2026-03-09. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-07.
Attribution: Eliezer Yudkowsky, “Re: Seed AI (was: How hard a Singularity?)”, SL4 mailing list, 2002-06-23.
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, Kinds of AI and technical history (research/technical-history). The quotation (12 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes, PDF line-break hyphens and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. Goertzel's words, quoted by Yudkowsky. No human editorial review.

primary sourceSupports the claim

Re: Seed AI (was: How hard a Singularity?) (SL4 mailing list)

SL4 mailing list · 2002-06-23

Archived copy, captured 2026-03-09: Re: Seed AI (was: How hard a Singularity?) (SL4 mailing list)

Cite the original source

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Source excerpt

“An AGI is not going to automatically pick up basic human empathy from interacting with humans”

Location in source Yudkowsky's reply

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-31

Source details and check notes

Authors: Eliezer Yudkowsky
Version: Archive HTML as served, retrieved 2026-10-07 (SHA-256 8fd31c8bb942dfb3da4906a254fc68c2f4112869ebe5f9811a6f54dc977d7310); quoted lines excluded when reading the author’s text. The served archive shows later URL rewriting and does not authenticate historical bytes. Archive at sl4.org.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-07
Language: English (en)
Archive copy: Open archived copy, captured 2026-03-09: Re: Seed AI (was: How hard a Singularity?) (SL4 mailing list). Captured 8660 days after the recorded publication date. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2026-03-09. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-07.
Attribution: Eliezer Yudkowsky, “Re: Seed AI (was: How hard a Singularity?)”, SL4 mailing list, 2002-06-23.
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, Kinds of AI and technical history (research/technical-history). The quotation (16 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes, PDF line-break hyphens and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review.

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Record ID th-term-agi-sl4-2002-yudkowsky