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Clemmensen’s message of 1996-09-07 imagines a benign SI that cannot stop all wars without revealing itself and acts without letting people know. Copy claim link
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Date 1996-09-07 · publication Role Context Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Missing element The concealment of a benign SI is stipulated as an arbitrary assumption of the scenario, not argued as its strategy. Scope and limits Not about an AI misleading its developers.
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Re: SI ultimatum speculation (Extropians mailing list) ↗ Extropians mailing list · 1996-09-07
Archived copy, captured 2015-04-27: Re: SI ultimatum speculation (Extropians mailing list) ↗
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Source excerpt “the SI cannot instantly stop all wars without revealing itself [...] an SI that's only somewhat more intelligent than a smart human can make itself smarter still [...] the transformation will occur in days or weeks.” Location in source Message body, second and final unquoted paragraphs ("obvous" sic)
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Source details and check notes Authors Dan Clemmensen 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 2015-04-27: Re: SI ultimatum speculation (Extropians mailing list) ↗ . Captured 6806 days after the recorded publication date. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2015-04-27. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-06.Attribution Dan Clemmensen, "Re: SI ultimatum speculation", Extropians mailing list, 1996-09-07. 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 The same passage as the A4 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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Date. Sent header: Sat, 07 Sep 1996 21:32:25 -0400 (sender-local date).
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