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The SL4 message “Revising a Friendly AI” (2000-12-10) contests Y02. Replying to Ben Goertzel's quip that a correctable AI just has to 'love its mommy and daddy', he says that a year earlier he would have dismissed such sterile goal-literalism as something no transhuman could fall for, and that he made the mistake by treating intelligence as the only key variable. Copy claim link
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Date 2000-12-10 · publication Role Contesting Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Engagement Engages a premise. Under the message-level rule, the passage, read with the paragraph, message or dialogue turn it belongs to, gives a reason against the premise that greater intelligence by itself brings benevolent goals. Looking back Reports a view he held about a year before the message. The record is dated by the report. Scope and limits Premise addressed: Greater intelligence by itself brings benevolent goals. Retrospective about his view of about a year earlier; hedged ('am no longer sure').
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Revising a Friendly AI (SL4 mailing list) ↗ SL4 mailing list · 2000-12-10
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Source excerpt “I now no longer believe - or rather, am no longer sure; it amounts to the same thing - that the ability to see "turning the Universe into regular polygons" as "sterile", and "sterile" as "undesirable", is strictly a property of pure intelligence.” Location in source message body, paragraph beginning 'The upshot is that I now no longer believe'
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Source details and check notes Authors Eliezer Yudkowsky Version Archive HTML as served, retrieved 2026-10-07 (SHA-256 4fb349f96304ea9c661f22830b6831e3a8dba94ea90584ebabcf9a4ff7e46263); quoted lines excluded when reading the author’s text. The served archive shows later URL rewriting and does not authenticate historical bytes. Archive at sl4.org. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-07 Language English (en) Attribution Eliezer Yudkowsky, “Revising a Friendly AI”, SL4 mailing list, 2000-12-10. 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 Candidate pack passage T02-s2. The quotation (43 words) matched the retrieved expression (SHA-256 4fb349f96304ea9c661f22830b6831e3a8dba94ea90584ebabcf9a4ff7e46263) when checked on 2026-10-07. 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 disputes the proposition or a premise it depends on. The record documents the text’s position, not who is right.
Date. Archive author index lists the message as "Sun Dec 10 2000 - 19:56:20 MST" under "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky".
Record ID yk-y02-sl4-2000-12-10-yudkowsky-0012-0355-c