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Interim purpose
A message by Eliezer Yudkowsky to the Extropians mailing list, dated 1996-11-22 by the archive’s author index, in the thread “Interim purpose”.
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Interim purpose (Extropians mailing list) ↗ Extropians mailing list · published 1996-11-22 · Archive HTML as served, retrieved 2026-10-07 (SHA-256 452d4b67965a56bee175eabf79a0cbe9095b8ab15f82b3b17430b03f83532c81); 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.
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