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The SL4 message “Re: [SL4] Employment vs. Singularity” (2000-08-21) bears on Y11. Replying to Samantha Atkins, who imagines a gradual post-scarcity economy, he says a slow, planetwide Singularity carries risks of technological disaster and that SIAI plans for one AI taking off from a lab. Copy claim link
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Date 2000-08-21 · publication Role Context Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Missing element A strategy statement that a slow Singularity carries other technological risks; it makes no claim about takeoff speed or time to adjust to AI. Scope and limits Premise addressed: Capability gains will be gradual and visible. Related rather than answered-it: the danger he names is 'ultratech' (nanotechnology) disaster during a slow transition, not a claim about takeoff speed or time to adjust to AI; the interlocutor was not arguing that slowness would be safe. A statement of strategy (a slow Singularity is more dangerous), not a forecast that takeoff will be fast. Quotation shortened to respect the ~10% cap for a short message.
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Re: [SL4] Employment vs. Singularity (SL4 mailing list) ↗ SL4 mailing list · 2000-08-21
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Source excerpt “Slow Singularity model has … potential for ultratech disaster … SingInst model consists of one AI in a research lab” Location in source message body, paragraph beginning 'You seem to be visualizing a slow, gradual, planetwide scenario'
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Source details and check notes Authors Eliezer Yudkowsky Version Archive HTML as served, retrieved 2026-10-07 (SHA-256 aa21839afaeb0cb5f7e88ecb0ddffee6c7593fb3744c67a0dcab444452eb9b2a); 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: [SL4] Employment vs. Singularity”, SL4 mailing list, 2000-08-21. 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 T11-s5. The quotation (20 words; trimmed 2026-10-13 from 33 words) matched the retrieved expression (SHA-256 aa21839afaeb0cb5f7e88ecb0ddffee6c7593fb3744c67a0dcab444452eb9b2a) 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 "Mon Aug 21 2000 - 00:41:14 MDT" under "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky".
Record ID yk-y11-sl4-2000-08-21-yudkowsky-0008-0046-b