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Good’s chapter has an ultraintelligent machine design even better machines, and suggests that a machine reluctant to design its replacement could instead gradually improve itself by acquiring new equipment. Copy claim link
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Date 1965 · publication Claimed date 1962-10. The chapter’s footnote on p. 31 names talks in October 1962 and January 1963, a first draft of April 1963 and a slightly emended version of May 1964. None was retrieved, so the wording is not dated to them. Role Context Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Missing element The ultraintelligent machine designs better successors, or alters itself by acquiring equipment; the chapter does not say that a machine improves its own capacity to improve. Scope and limits Building a better successor does not meet the criterion, which requires the same system to improve.
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Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine ↗ Academic Press · 1965
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Paraphrase Good answers a science-fiction story in which a machine refused to design a better one by noting that it "could gradually improve itself out of all recognition, by acquiring new equipment".
Location in source Section 2, printed p. 33 (scan page 3): the design passage and the following paragraph on a science-fiction story
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Source details and check notes Authors I. J. Good Version Scanned reprint, Advances in Computers volume 6, pp. 31–88. Repository metadata identifies ©1965; the mirror filename says 1966. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-09-17 Language English (en) Attribution Academic Press, Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine (1965). Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and minimal attributed excerpts only. Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Checked against the text layer of the inspected scan on 2026-10-06. 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.
Relation. A passage of the document bears on the proposition without meeting its criterion; the record names the missing element. It is not an articulation and implies no influence.
Date. Year of Advances in Computers, volume 6, as catalogued by Open Library; the current Crossref record gives 1966. The discrepancy is unresolved.
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