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The Arbital page Optimization daemons says that in human evolution such rapid capability gain occurred that a context change took place. Copy claim link
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Date 2016-03-22 · publication Wording attested Only in a later, undated copy. Current viewer page; an Internet Archive capture of 2021-12-04 exists but was not compared. Role Context Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Missing element Rapid capability gain appears in an analogy with human evolution, with no period and not as a claim about machines. Scope and limits The same passage as the B3 record.
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Optimization daemons (Arbital, GreaterWrong viewer) ↗ Arbital · 2016-03-22
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Source excerpt “Initially, these cognitive optimizers pursued goals that correlated well with natural selection's optimization target of reproductive fitness [...] such rapid capability gain occurred that a context change took place and the brains' pursuit of their internal goals no longer correlated reliably with DNA replication.” Location in source First paragraph (evolution analogy)
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Source details and check notes Authors Eliezer Yudkowsky Version Current viewer page, retrieved 2026-10-06; it is generated dynamically, so its bytes differ from the 1996–2022 candidate search’s retrieval while the quoted text matches. Read through the GreaterWrong Arbital viewer. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-06 Language English (en) Archive copy Open archived copy, captured 2021-12-04: Optimization daemons (Arbital, GreaterWrong viewer) ↗ . Captured 2083 days after the recorded publication date. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2021-12-04. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-06.Attribution Eliezer Yudkowsky, "Optimization daemons", Arbital. 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 The same passage as the B3 record. 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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