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Yudkowsky’s message of 1998-09-07, quoting extracts of the author’s page on the Singularity, says that once a seed AI understands its own architecture, it can design new abilities for itself and dramatically optimise old ones. Copy claim link
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Date 1998-09-07 · publication Role Earliest located Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Scope and limits Extracts from Yudkowsky’s page "Singularity Analysis", whose 1998 text was not captured; the message is dated by its header. The announcement of Coding a Transhuman AI the same evening (message 2212) carries the earliest located use of the term; the two arrived three minutes apart, and their sent headers give the opposite order.
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Human AI to superhuman (Re: Max More) (Extropians mailing list) ↗ Extropians mailing list · 1998-09-07
Archived copy, captured 2015-04-28: Human AI to superhuman (Re: Max More) (Extropians mailing list) ↗
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Source excerpt “Once the seed AI understands its own architecture, it can design new abilities for itself, dramatically optimize old abilities, spread its consciousness into the Internet, etc.” Location in source Message body, extract beginning "The AI is likely to bottleneck at the architectural stage"
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Source details and check notes Authors Eliezer S. Yudkowsky Version Archive HTML as served, retrieved 2026-10-06 with the hash recorded by the 1996–2022 candidate search; quoted lines excluded when reading the author’s text. Archive at extropians.weidai.com. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-06 Language English (en) Archive copy Open archived copy, captured 2015-04-28: Human AI to superhuman (Re: Max More) (Extropians mailing list) ↗ . Captured 6077 days after the recorded publication date. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2015-04-28. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-06.Attribution Eliezer S. Yudkowsky, "Human AI to superhuman (Re: Max More)", Extropians mailing list, 1998-09-07. 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 Read in the archive HTML on 2026-10-06; a contemporaneous description of a seed AI. 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. Sent header: Mon, 07 Sep 1998 23:24:22 -0500 (sender-local date); archive receipt Mon Sep 7 22:24:20 1998 MDT.
Record ID ts-a2-yudkowsky-1998-09-07-2209