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The SL4 message “Friendly AI communications issues (was: Consciousness)” (2002-09-10) contests Y14. Writing about Friendly AI problems, he declines to rely on the historical pattern that technological problems get solved as they arise and says he wants to know a solution exists in advance. Copy claim link
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Date 2002-09-10 · 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 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 preceding paragraph endorses technophilia and says solutions usually outrun problems; he calls the 'as we go along' regularity historically reliable but refuses to depend on it for Friendly AI. He does not argue here that failures would be unrecoverable.
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Friendly AI communications issues (was: Consciousness) (SL4 mailing list) ↗ SL4 mailing list · 2002-09-10
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Source excerpt “I'm trying hard to make sure I know what the inhumanly good solutions are *in advance* … rather than relying on the historically reliable empirical regularity that we'll find the solutions as we go along.” Location in source message body, paragraph beginning 'It could be that when we actually start building AI'
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Source details and check notes Authors Eliezer Yudkowsky Version Archive HTML as served, retrieved 2026-10-07 (SHA-256 32c5accbd16436be3fdfa318bd6815847aea238616dc4627fb946f6148fcfcb2); 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, “Friendly AI communications issues (was: Consciousness)”, SL4 mailing list, 2002-09-10. 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 T14-s2. The quotation (35 words) matched the retrieved expression (SHA-256 32c5accbd16436be3fdfa318bd6815847aea238616dc4627fb946f6148fcfcb2) 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 "Tue Sep 10 2002 - 07:46:27 MDT" under "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky".
Record ID yk-y14-sl4-2002-09-10-yudkowsky-0209-5398-c