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The SL4 message “Re: Two draft papers: AI and existential risk; heuristics and biases” (2006-06-13) contests Y18. Replying to Robin Hanson's comments on his draft chapters, he argues that between-species differences in brain circuitry exclude weaker minds from a knowledge economy, so that trade-based intuitions from human economies do not carry over. Copy claim link
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Date 2006-06-13 · 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 humans could trade with a superintelligence for what we need. Scope and limits Premise addressed: Humans could trade with a superintelligence for what we need. Related: the argument concerns growth and trade among AIs and the exclusion of chimpanzees from the human economy, not directly whether humans could trade with a superintelligence for survival; a precursor of the comparative-advantage rejoinder in his 2024 post ‘The Sun is big, but superintelligences will not spare Earth a little sunlight’. Replying to Robin Hanson on trade and hard takeoff: differences in brain circuitry exclude chimpanzees from the human knowledge economy.
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Re: Two draft papers: AI and existential risk; heuristics and biases (SL4 mailing list) ↗ SL4 mailing list · 2006-06-13
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Source excerpt “Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage does not extend to chimps. And chimps are our closest cousins! What about mice? What about lizards?” Location in source message body, paragraph beginning 'A comparative handful of improvements to underlying *generators*'
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Source details and check notes Authors Eliezer Yudkowsky Version Archive HTML as served, retrieved 2026-10-07 (SHA-256 ec202f5e12518658e764c9a55395bbb1e6c0b25536b248c1db87a4d560f6fb8e); 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: Two draft papers: AI and existential risk; heuristics and biases”, SL4 mailing list, 2006-06-13. 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 T18-s4. The quotation (22 words) matched the retrieved expression (SHA-256 ec202f5e12518658e764c9a55395bbb1e6c0b25536b248c1db87a4d560f6fb8e) 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 Jun 13 2006 - 00:34:22 MDT" under "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky".
Record ID yk-y18-sl4-2006-06-13-yudkowsky-0606-15271-c