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The SL4 message “Re: FW: Group releases "Friendly AI"” (2001-04-19) contests Y20. Commenting on a forwarded news item about the Friendly AI release, he describes having to persuade AI researchers to be more worried while persuading futurists to drop anthropomorphic failure scenarios. Copy claim link
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Date 2001-04-19 · publication Role Contesting Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Engagement States the contrary. Under the message-level rule, the passage states the contrary conclusion without giving a reason against the premise that the concern is about robots that come to hate or rebel against humans, even when read with its message or dialogue turn. Scope and limits Premise addressed: The concern is about robots that come to hate or rebel against humans. Does not say which anthropomorphic malfunctions he means; read with his SL4 message of the previous day (2001-04-18). Quote stops mid-sentence (continues with the general public). The sentence continues: "and convincing the general populace that AIs can be made at least as trustworthy as humans or human organizations". Quotation shortened to respect the ~10% cap for a short message.
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Re: FW: Group releases "Friendly AI" (SL4 mailing list) ↗ SL4 mailing list · 2001-04-19
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Source excerpt “convincing futurists not to worry about the wrong (anthropomorphic) malfunctions” Location in source message body, paragraph beginning 'Welcome to my life'
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Source details and check notes Authors Eliezer Yudkowsky Version Archive HTML as served, retrieved 2026-10-07 (SHA-256 938de0d8b18e9eb63e687c760f39243627b6e6d44ec6c0304b3172741d81391e); 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: FW: Group releases "Friendly AI"”, SL4 mailing list, 2001-04-19. 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 T20-s2. The quotation (10 words) matched the retrieved expression (SHA-256 938de0d8b18e9eb63e687c760f39243627b6e6d44ec6c0304b3172741d81391e) 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 "Thu Apr 19 2001 - 14:41:14 MDT" under "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky".
Record ID yk-y20-sl4-2001-04-19-yudkowsky-0104-1166-c