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The SL4 message “Re: Get it right the first time (Was: )” (2000-09-17) contests Y14. In a thread on whether a confined seed AI could escape its containment, he says that opposing or constraining a superintelligence cannot work, so the design has to be right the first time. Copy claim link
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Date 2000-09-17 · 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 we get to learn from failures with powerful AI and try again, as with other technologies. Scope and limits Premise addressed: We get to learn from failures with powerful AI and try again, as with other technologies. The thread subject already read 'Get it right the first time'. States the contrary conclusion without engaging the analogy with other technologies; compare the CFAI design assumption (related). Earlier than CFAI (2001-06-15) and his TIME article (2023).
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Re: Get it right the first time (Was: ) (SL4 mailing list) ↗ SL4 mailing list · 2000-09-17
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Source excerpt “Trying to oppose or even constrain a superintelligence is a fool's game. Get It Right The First Time.” Location in source message body, paragraph beginning 'Trying to oppose or even constrain a superintelligence'
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Source details and check notes Authors Eliezer Yudkowsky Version Archive HTML as served, retrieved 2026-10-07 (SHA-256 8e93327f82451a7044b275f7151ef04bb40bd49d49ed28e9fedaf7d46c710b31); 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: Get it right the first time (Was: )”, SL4 mailing list, 2000-09-17. 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 T14-s1. The quotation (18 words) matched the retrieved expression (SHA-256 8e93327f82451a7044b275f7151ef04bb40bd49d49ed28e9fedaf7d46c710b31) 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 Sep 17 2000 - 10:19:16 MDT" under "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky".
Record ID yk-y14-sl4-2000-09-17-yudkowsky-0009-0092-c