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The SL4 message “Re: On Our Duty to Not Be Responsible for Artificial Minds” (2005-08-09) bears on Y05. In a thread on the duty not to be responsible for artificial minds, he denies that he is 'autonomous' and describes himself as a product of evolution whose goals diverged from the criterion it optimised. Copy claim link
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Date 2005-08-09 · publication Role Context Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Missing element About autonomy and the responsibility of creators, not about training AI on human feedback. Scope and limits Premise addressed: Optimising a system for human approval or reward produces internalised human values. Made in an argument about autonomy and the moral responsibility of creators, not about AI training; same point as his 2007 post ‘Thou Art Godshatter’. From an argument about autonomy and designers' moral responsibility, not about training methods.
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Re: On Our Duty to Not Be Responsible for Artificial Minds (SL4 mailing list) ↗ SL4 mailing list · 2005-08-09
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Source excerpt “Evolution created me via a subtle and broken algorithm, which caused the goals of my internal psychology to depart far from natural selection's sole criterion of inclusive genetic fitness.” Location in source message body, paragraph beginning 'I am not "autonomous"'
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Source details and check notes Authors Eliezer Yudkowsky Version Archive HTML as served, retrieved 2026-10-07 (SHA-256 ef9312c8f14a4d44367f7f10ece89e7e9755fc4247874db1e9be1cc830a19a41); 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, “Re: On Our Duty to Not Be Responsible for Artificial Minds”, SL4 mailing list, 2005-08-09. 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 T05-s3. The quotation (29 words) matched the retrieved expression (SHA-256 ef9312c8f14a4d44367f7f10ece89e7e9755fc4247874db1e9be1cc830a19a41) 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.
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Date. Archive author index lists the message as "Tue Aug 09 2005 - 11:09:46 MDT" under "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky".
Record ID yk-y05-sl4-2005-08-09-yudkowsky-0508-11866-b