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Yudkowsky’s message of 1996-12-31 argues that an evil confined Power could lie its way to release. Copy claim link
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Date 1996-12-31 · publication Role Articulation Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Scope and limits Persuasive lying to gain release from confinement.
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Re: Goal-based AI (Extropians mailing list) ↗ Extropians mailing list · 1996-12-31
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Source excerpt “less likely to let a friendly Power out than an evil one, because the evil one could lie.” Location in source Message body, fourth unquoted paragraph
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Source details and check notes Authors Eliezer 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) Attribution Eliezer Yudkowsky, "Re: Goal-based AI", Extropians mailing list, 1996-12-31. 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 The same passage as the B5 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: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 10:40:10 -0600, about four hours before Yudkowsky’s related message 5159.
Record ID ts-b2-yudkowsky-1996-12-31-5142