Staring into the Singularity
An essay on Eliezer Yudkowsky’s personal website, first created in 1996 according to the page and announced on the Extropians list that November; read in version 1.2.1 (updated 2000-08-31) as captured in December 2000.
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- No authorship claim recorded yet. The source records list Eliezer Yudkowsky and Eliezer S. Yudkowsky.
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- No date claim recorded yet. The source records give the publication date as 1996-11-19 and 1996-11-18.
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- Sites: Staring Into The Singularity & Algernon’s Law (Extropians mailing list) Extropians mailing list · published 1996-11-19 · Archive HTML as served, retrieved 2026-10-06 with the hash recorded by the 1996–2022 candidate search. Archive at extropians.weidai.com.Archived copy, captured 2014-11-19: Sites: Staring Into The Singularity & Algernon’s Law (Extropians mailing list). Captured 6574 days after the recorded publication date. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2014-11-19. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-06.
- Staring into the Singularity (version 1.2.1) Eliezer S. Yudkowsky · published 1996-11-18 · Version 1.2.1, "Updated: 08/31/2000", in the raw Internet Archive capture of 2000-12-04; retrieved 2026-10-06 with the hash recorded by the 1996–2022 candidate search. Personal website, sysopmind.com.Archived copy, captured 2000-12-04: Staring into the Singularity (version 1.2.1). Captured 95 days after the recorded version date. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2000-12-04. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-06.
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- Propositions about superintelligence, 1863–2022 →3 records on this document
- Eliezer Yudkowsky’s arguments on common claims about AI, 1996–2026 →5 records on this document
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