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The SL4 message “Re: Singularity Institute: Likely to win the race to build GAI?” (2006-02-15) contests Y28. Replying to Joshua Fox, who asked how SIAI could beat thousands of smart AGI researchers, he argues that AGI projects that do not treat Friendliness as a requirement are bounded in competence. Copy claim link
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Date 2006-02-15 · 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 the most advanced projects are the most competent to handle safety. Scope and limits Premise addressed: The most advanced projects are the most competent to handle safety. Written in part to argue for SIAI's prospects. Predates the 2008 chapter text of ‘Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk’, which itself says 'at the time of this writing in 2006'.
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Re: Singularity Institute: Likely to win the race to build GAI? (SL4 mailing list) ↗ SL4 mailing list · 2006-02-15
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Source excerpt “If you're a researcher building an F-less AGI and you're not deliberately out to destroy the world, there are things you can't know, skills you can't have, and a limit on how well you can understand the AI you're trying to build.” Location in source message body, paragraph beginning 'If you're a researcher building an…'
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Source details and check notes Authors Eliezer Yudkowsky Version Archive HTML as served, retrieved 2026-10-07 (SHA-256 e1b07a528bc9f5a37e6bd2145a04d80b7bfde216cb10ccbdabb28eaf5169670d); 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: Singularity Institute: Likely to win the race to build GAI?”, SL4 mailing list, 2006-02-15. 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 T28-s2. The quotation (42 words) matched the retrieved expression (SHA-256 e1b07a528bc9f5a37e6bd2145a04d80b7bfde216cb10ccbdabb28eaf5169670d) 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 "Wed Feb 15 2006 - 10:47:28 MST" under "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky".
Record ID yk-y28-sl4-2006-02-15-yudkowsky-0602-14096-c