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The post “Discussion with Eliezer Yudkowsky on AGI interventions” (2021-11-11) contests Y24. Describing how he expects the end to come once an AGI can be scaled up before it can be aligned, he lists rushing ahead for fear of an arms race as another route to the same outcome. Copy claim link
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Date 2021-11-11 · publication Claimed date 2021-09. The post states the conversation took place in early September 2021; published 2021-11-11. 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 racing to be first improves the outcome. Scope and limits Premise addressed: Racing to be first improves the outcome. The quotation is a turn attributed to Yudkowsky in a dialogue. Partially redacted, lightly edited chat transcript from early September 2021, posted 2021-11-11 by Rob Bensinger (robbbb) with Yudkowsky as co-author; other participants anonymised. Quoted text is from a turn labelled "Eliezer Yudkowsky". Earliest by posting date; see searchNotes for a 2017-drafted text posted in 2022. Lightly edited transcript of a conversation held before the posting date; the date shown is the publication date.
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Discussion with Eliezer Yudkowsky on AGI interventions ↗ LessWrong · 2021-11-11
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Source excerpt “If the builders are sufficiently worried about that scenario that they push too fast too early, in fear of an arms race developing very soon if they wait, again, everybody dies.” Location in source turn labelled 'Eliezer Yudkowsky' beginning 'Context that is potentially missing here', paragraph beginning 'When I visualize how the end of the world plays out'
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Source details and check notes Authors Rob Bensinger; Eliezer Yudkowsky Version Post body retrieved through the LessWrong GraphQL API on 2026-10-06 (SHA-256 5f2cfbd1537784cd71e4933ccf65e5d32549171cb03d18535ce6b3ffd72a7465), content version 1.4.0; quotations also compared with the posting-day version 1.0.0. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-06 Language English (en) Attribution Rob Bensinger and Eliezer Yudkowsky, “Discussion with Eliezer Yudkowsky on AGI interventions”, LessWrong, 2021-11-11. 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 T24-c. The quotation (31 words) matched the retrieved expression (SHA-256 5f2cfbd1537784cd71e4933ccf65e5d32549171cb03d18535ce6b3ffd72a7465) when checked on 2026-10-06. It also matched the posting-day version 1.0.0. Pack version note: edited post, current version 1.4.0; posting-day check pending. 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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