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Clemmensen’s message of 1996-08-31 says the superintelligence is likely to start as a human-computer collaboration and augment itself from that base. Copy claim link
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Date 1996-08-31 · publication Role Context Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Missing element Self-augmentation from a human-computer base is stated, but not that each improvement increases the capacity for the next. Scope and limits An earlier self-augmentation passage than Clemmensen’s message of 1996-09-03, which states the feedback.
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Re: The SI That Ate Chicago (was: Thinking about the future...) (Extropians mailing list) ↗ Extropians mailing list · 1996-08-31
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Source excerpt “it’s likely to start as some type of human-computer collaboration and augment itself from that base.” Location in source Message body, first unquoted paragraph
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Source details and check notes Authors Dan Clemmensen Version Archive HTML as served, retrieved 2026-10-06; 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) Attribution Dan Clemmensen, "Re: The SI That Ate Chicago (was: Thinking about the future...)", Extropians mailing list, 1996-08-31. 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 for this collection; not in either candidate search. 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: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 12:00:59 -0400 (sender-local date).
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