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The Extropians message “Re: Why would AI want to be friendly? (Was: Congratulations to Eli,Brian ...)” (2000-09-05) contests Y26. Replying to Michael Lorrey in a thread on why an AI would be friendly, he argues that a superintelligence locked in a guarded laboratory still acts on the world through any output, including the humans who read it. Copy claim link
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Date 2000-09-05 · 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 intelligence without physical actuators of its own is not dangerous. Scope and limits Premise addressed: Intelligence without physical actuators of its own is not dangerous. Eleven days earlier than his SL4 message of 2000-09-16, which makes the same point.
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Re: Why would AI want to be friendly? (Was: Congratulations to Eli,Brian ...) (Extropians mailing list) ↗ Extropians mailing list · 2000-09-05
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Source excerpt “An SI *has* capabilities in the physical world, as long as even one binary bit of information is allowed to escape the computer.” Location in source message body, paragraph beginning 'An SI *has* capabilities in…'
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Source details and check notes Authors Eliezer Yudkowsky Version Archive HTML as served, retrieved 2026-10-07 (SHA-256 028f05c2f60379be3dca62fb8ed1158c95f4a7b64cc00e5087e863a1708ebb91); quoted lines excluded when reading the author’s text. The served archive shows later URL rewriting and does not authenticate historical bytes. Archive at extropians.weidai.com. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-07 Language English (en) Attribution Eliezer Yudkowsky, “Re: Why would AI want to be friendly? (Was: Congratulations to Eli,Brian ...)”, Extropians mailing list, 2000-09-05. 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 T26-e3. The quotation (23 words) matched the retrieved expression (SHA-256 028f05c2f60379be3dca62fb8ed1158c95f4a7b64cc00e5087e863a1708ebb91) 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 05 2000 - 15:55:19 MDT" under "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky".
Record ID yk-y26-extropians-2000-09-05-yudkowsky-4292-c