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What Core Argument?

A post by Robin Hanson on Overcoming Bias of December 2008, during the Hanson–Yudkowsky debate; reprinted in MIRI’s 2013 collection of the debate.

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  • What Core Argument? Overcoming Bias · published 2008-12 · Current page on Substack, reached from the 2008 address and retrieved 2026-10-06; its bytes differ from the 1996–2022 candidate search’s retrieval while the quoted text matches.
  • What Core Argument? Machine Intelligence Research Institute, The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate (2013) · published 2013 · Chapter 53 of The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate (Machine Intelligence Research Institute, 2013), which compiles the 2008 Overcoming Bias debate with later posts; the compilation heads the post with its date. Current MIRI PDF, retrieved 2026-10-11. SHA-256 6b6dfd0416402e1776d7ddcece95298df2df0ed9bc0bd4a6f4bd81c4b1e5102a.

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