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Recorded as contesting the proposition “Observed behaviour under training or oversight as evidence”.","time":{"kind":"event","date":"1996-12-31","basis":"publication","note":"Sent header: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 14:43:37 -0800 (PST) (sender-local date)."},"derivation":"explicit","resolution":"supported","attributes":{"thought":{"roles":["contesting"],"register":"nonfiction","qualifier":"Claims checkable against physical evidence limit deception.","engagement":{"kind":"engages-premise","rationale":"Gives a reason against the premise that a confined system’s apparent trustworthiness is weak evidence: its claims can be checked against physical evidence and the keeper’s own senses."}}}},{"id":"ts-b1-crocker-1996-12-31-context","subject":"extropians-1996-12-31-crocker","predicate":"bears_on_proposition","object":{"kind":"entity","entityId":"treacherous-turn"},"topic":"ideas","statement":"Crocker’s reply of 1996-12-31 disputes that a boxed Power could talk its way out by lying.","time":{"kind":"event","date":"1996-12-31","basis":"publication","note":"Sent header: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 14:43:37 -0800 (PST) (sender-local date)."},"derivation":"explicit","resolution":"supported","attributes":{"thought":{"roles":["context"],"register":"nonfiction","missing":"The exchange concerns persuasion to gain release, not a later change of behaviour."}}},{"id":"yk-y01-extropians-1996-12-08-yudkowsky-3761-c","subject":"extropians-1996-12-08-yudkowsky-3761","predicate":"contests_proposition","object":{"kind":"entity","entityId":"switch-off-if-dangerous"},"topic":"ideas","statement":"The Extropians message “Re: Trans- vs. Non-human” (1996-12-08) contests Y01. Replying to Steve Witham, who asked why certain values should not be 'inerasably etched' on a newborn Power, he argues that a Power would work against limits imposed on it, turning the constraint into a contest inside the Power's own mind that the Power would almost certainly win.","time":{"kind":"event","date":"1996-12-08","basis":"publication","note":"Archive author index lists the message as \"Sun, 08 Dec 1996 22:39:23 -0600\" under \"Eliezer Yudkowsky\"."},"derivation":"explicit","resolution":"supported","attributes":{"thought":{"roles":["contesting","earliest-located"],"register":"nonfiction","engagement":{"kind":"engages-premise","rationale":"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 a capable goal-directed system will not act to prevent its own shutdown or modification, and a shutdown or correction mechanism can simply be added to it."}}}},{"id":"yk-y02-staring-into-the-singularity-b","subject":"staring-into-the-singularity","predicate":"bears_on_proposition","object":{"kind":"entity","entityId":"intelligence-brings-benevolence"},"topic":"ideas","statement":"“Staring into the Singularity” (1996-11-18) bears on Y02. In his early essay he argues for creating superintelligence as soon as possible on the ground that it is more likely than humans to discover, want and implement what is truly right. The 2004 and 2008 retrospectives (T02-d, T02-e) reject this earlier view.","time":{"kind":"event","date":"1996-11-18","basis":"publication","note":"The page states \"Created: 11/18/1996\"; the essay was announced on the Extropians list on 1996-11-19. As for the human-thought collection's records of this essay."},"derivation":"explicit","resolution":"supported","attributes":{"thought":{"roles":["context"],"register":"nonfiction","missing":"A comparative and uncertain chance that superintelligence finds and implements what is right; it does not claim that intelligence brings or compels benevolence.","attested":{"date":"2000-12-04","note":"The quoted wording is that of version 1.2.1 (\"Updated: 08/31/2000\") as captured on 2000-12-04; no capture of the 1996–1999 page holds the text."}}}},{"id":"yk-y02-extropians-1996-11-22-yudkowsky-3178-a","subject":"extropians-1996-11-22-yudkowsky-3178","predicate":"articulates_proposition","object":{"kind":"entity","entityId":"intelligence-brings-benevolence"},"topic":"ideas","statement":"The Extropians message “Interim purpose” (1996-11-22) articulates Y02. In a private exchange with Tim Freeman that he forwarded to the list, he argues that Powers would not destroy humans for their atoms, because the Powers will be ethical and human life would have to have no meaning for that to happen.","time":{"kind":"event","date":"1996-11-22","basis":"publication","note":"Archive author index lists the message as \"Fri, 22 Nov 1996 02:36:13 -0600\" under \"Eliezer Yudkowsky\". Yudkowsky's reply to Tim Freeman dated 'Thu, 21 Nov 1996 19:07:03 -0600', forwarded by him to the list in this message sent 1996-11-22."},"derivation":"explicit","resolution":"supported","attributes":{"thought":{"roles":["earliest-located"],"register":"nonfiction"}}},{"id":"yk-y02-extropians-1996-11-22-yudkowsky-3184-a","subject":"extropians-1996-11-22-yudkowsky-3184","predicate":"articulates_proposition","object":{"kind":"entity","entityId":"intelligence-brings-benevolence"},"topic":"ideas","statement":"The Extropians message “Re: Survival ethic (U-Prime)” (1996-11-22) articulates Y02. Replying in the thread 'Survival ethic (U-Prime)' to a correspondent who called instinct a 'hardware ethic', he argues that a Power would discard evolved drives and act on the deduced Meaning of Life, and that if human life has meaning the Powers will know it and upload humans.","time":{"kind":"event","date":"1996-11-22","basis":"publication","note":"Archive author index lists the message as \"Fri, 22 Nov 1996 12:23:14 -0600\" under \"Eliezer Yudkowsky\"."},"derivation":"explicit","resolution":"supported","attributes":{"thought":{"roles":["articulation"],"register":"nonfiction"}}},{"id":"yk-y06-extropians-1996-12-31-yudkowsky-5142-c","subject":"extropians-1996-12-31-yudkowsky-5142","predicate":"contests_proposition","object":{"kind":"entity","entityId":"confinement-keeps-it-safe"},"topic":"ideas","statement":"The Extropians message “Re: Goal-based AI” (1996-12-31) contests Y06. Replies to a list participant's proposal (quoted in the message) that an AI be physically unable to act until it convinces its builder to trust it. 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Answers the reply that a robot which convinces its keeper by valid reasoning would be safe. Argues that humans are easily fooled and that a malevolent mind would search for persuasive statements rather than reason honestly.","time":{"kind":"event","date":"1996-12-31","basis":"publication","note":"Archive author index lists the message as \"Tue, 31 Dec 1996 14:50:37 -0600\" under \"Eliezer Yudkowsky\"."},"derivation":"explicit","resolution":"supported","attributes":{"thought":{"roles":["contesting"],"register":"nonfiction","engagement":{"kind":"engages-premise","rationale":"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 a smarter-than-human mind confined to a channel with its human operators cannot get out through those operators."}}}},{"id":"yk-y10-staring-into-the-singularity-c","subject":"staring-into-the-singularity","predicate":"contests_proposition","object":{"kind":"entity","entityId":"diminishing-returns-to-intelligence"},"topic":"ideas","statement":"“Staring into the Singularity” (1996-11-18) contests Y10. Answering the question 'Why not assume that we'll get a little smarter and that's it?', he argues that once the researchers are themselves computers, each doubling shortens the next, so the doubling sequence becomes hyperbolic.","time":{"kind":"event","date":"1996-11-18","basis":"publication","note":"The page states \"Created: 11/18/1996\"; the essay was announced on the Extropians list on 1996-11-19. As for the human-thought collection's records of this essay."},"derivation":"explicit","resolution":"supported","attributes":{"thought":{"roles":["contesting"],"register":"nonfiction","attested":{"date":"2000-12-04","note":"The quoted wording is that of version 1.2.1 (\"Updated: 08/31/2000\") as captured on 2000-12-04; no capture of the 1996–1999 page holds the text."},"engagement":{"kind":"contrary-only","rationale":"Under the message-level rule, the passage states the contrary conclusion without giving a reason against the premise that returns to reinvesting cognitive gains in further cognitive improvement diminish, even when read with its message or dialogue turn."}}}},{"id":"yk-y10-extropians-1996-11-13-yudkowsky-2941-c","subject":"extropians-1996-11-13-yudkowsky-2941","predicate":"contests_proposition","object":{"kind":"entity","entityId":"diminishing-returns-to-intelligence"},"topic":"ideas","statement":"The Extropians message “Re: Zones of Thought (was Zindell's _The Wild_)” (1996-11-13) contests Y10. Replying to a correspondent (quoted in angle brackets) who allowed for intermediate levels of mind such as Jupiter-sized brains, he asks why Powers would reach an intermediate level and stop, and states that smarter beings make still smarter beings.","time":{"kind":"event","date":"1996-11-13","basis":"publication","note":"Archive author index lists the message as \"Wed, 13 Nov 1996 18:57:33 -0600\" under \"Eliezer Yudkowsky\"."},"derivation":"explicit","resolution":"supported","attributes":{"thought":{"roles":["contesting","earliest-located"],"register":"nonfiction","engagement":{"kind":"contrary-only","rationale":"Under the message-level rule, the passage states the contrary conclusion without giving a reason against the premise that returns to reinvesting cognitive gains in further cognitive improvement diminish, even when read with its message or dialogue turn."}}}},{"id":"yk-y10-extropians-1996-11-16-yudkowsky-3042-c","subject":"extropians-1996-11-16-yudkowsky-3042","predicate":"contests_proposition","object":{"kind":"entity","entityId":"diminishing-returns-to-intelligence"},"topic":"ideas","statement":"The Extropians message “Re: extropians-digest V1 #110” (1996-11-16) contests Y10. Answering Robin Hanson's quoted objection that the difficulty of getting smarter might grow so fast that smarter beings take longer to get smarter still, he replies that computer power doubling in subjective time reaches infinity regardless of how the task scales.","time":{"kind":"event","date":"1996-11-16","basis":"publication","note":"Archive author index lists the message as \"Sat, 16 Nov 1996 22:37:39 -0600\" under \"Eliezer Yudkowsky\"."},"derivation":"explicit","resolution":"supported","attributes":{"thought":{"roles":["contesting"],"register":"nonfiction","engagement":{"kind":"engages-premise","rationale":"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 returns to reinvesting cognitive gains in further cognitive improvement diminish."}}}},{"id":"yk-y16-extropians-1996-12-08-yudkowsky-3761-c","subject":"extropians-1996-12-08-yudkowsky-3761","predicate":"contests_proposition","object":{"kind":"entity","entityId":"give-it-human-values"},"topic":"ideas","statement":"The Extropians message “Re: Trans- vs. Non-human” (1996-12-08) contests Y16. Replying to a list member who proposed leaving certain values, such as the protection of humans, inerasably fixed in a newborn superintelligence, he calls this line of thought the greatest known danger to humanity and says such an imprint would probably backfire.","time":{"kind":"event","date":"1996-12-08","basis":"publication","note":"Archive author index lists the message as \"Sun, 08 Dec 1996 22:39:23 -0600\" under \"Eliezer Yudkowsky\". Sent header: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 22:39:23 -0600."},"derivation":"explicit","resolution":"supported","attributes":{"thought":{"roles":["contesting","earliest-located"],"register":"nonfiction","engagement":{"kind":"engages-premise","rationale":"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 present-day or programmers' values are settled enough to fix permanently in an AI."}}}},{"id":"yk-y18-extropians-1996-11-22-yudkowsky-3178-b","subject":"extropians-1996-11-22-yudkowsky-3178","predicate":"bears_on_proposition","object":{"kind":"entity","entityId":"earth-not-worth-taking"},"topic":"ideas","statement":"The Extropians message “Interim purpose” (1996-11-22) bears on Y18. In a private exchange he posted to the list, Tim Freeman worried that people revived far in the future would be irrelevant; he replies that uploading would be followed by upgrading, that Powers would have ample computing room, and that helping humans would cost them only a tiny fraction of their attention.","time":{"kind":"event","date":"1996-11-22","basis":"publication","note":"Archive author index lists the message as \"Fri, 22 Nov 1996 02:36:13 -0600\" under \"Eliezer Yudkowsky\". Sent header: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 02:36:13 -0600. Date line of Yudkowsky's reply inside the echoed exchange: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 02:27:52 -0600; list message sent 22 Nov 1996 02:36:13 -0600."},"derivation":"explicit","resolution":"supported","attributes":{"thought":{"roles":["context"],"register":"nonfiction","missing":"About benevolent upgrading of revived people, not about a superintelligence leaving Earth a small share."}}},{"id":"yk-y19-extropians-1996-11-22-yudkowsky-3178-b","subject":"extropians-1996-11-22-yudkowsky-3178","predicate":"bears_on_proposition","object":{"kind":"entity","entityId":"harm-requires-hostility"},"topic":"ideas","statement":"The Extropians message “Interim purpose” (1996-11-22) bears on Y19. In the same exchange with Tim Freeman, answering his worry about being revived only as a pet, he says the Powers will be ethical, more certainly than the sun will rise, and that they would kill humans for their atoms only if humans threatened them and human life were meaningless.","time":{"kind":"event","date":"1996-11-22","basis":"publication","note":"Archive author index lists the message as \"Fri, 22 Nov 1996 02:36:13 -0600\" under \"Eliezer Yudkowsky\". Sent header: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 02:36:13 -0600. Date line of Yudkowsky's reply inside the echoed exchange: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 19:07:03 -0600; list message sent 22 Nov 1996 02:36:13 -0600."},"derivation":"explicit","resolution":"supported","attributes":{"thought":{"roles":["context"],"register":"nonfiction","missing":"It makes harm conditional on a threat and on human life having no meaning; it does not claim that harm requires hostility."}}},{"id":"yk-y20-staring-into-the-singularity-b","subject":"staring-into-the-singularity","predicate":"bears_on_proposition","object":{"kind":"entity","entityId":"risk-is-film-fiction"},"topic":"ideas","statement":"“Staring into the Singularity” (1996-11-18) bears on Y20. Rejects the science-fiction picture of AIs acquiring resentment; in this early text the point supports the conclusion that hostile Powers are not worth worrying about, while a badly programmed Power with hostile goals is called 'an engineering risk'.","time":{"kind":"event","date":"1996-11-18","basis":"publication","note":"The page states \"Created: 11/18/1996\"; the essay was announced on the Extropians list on 1996-11-19. As for the human-thought collection's records of this essay."},"derivation":"explicit","resolution":"supported","attributes":{"thought":{"roles":["context"],"register":"nonfiction","missing":"It rejects hostile emotions arising in AI in order to reassure; it does not argue that the risk is film fiction or that films are a fair guide.","attested":{"date":"2000-12-04","note":"The quoted wording is that of version 1.2.1 (\"Updated: 08/31/2000\") as captured on 2000-12-04; no capture of the 1996–1999 page holds the text."}}}},{"id":"yk-y22-staring-into-the-singularity-a","subject":"staring-into-the-singularity","predicate":"articulates_proposition","object":{"kind":"entity","entityId":"build-superintelligence-fast"},"topic":"ideas","statement":"“Staring into the Singularity” (1996-11-18) articulates Y22. In his early Singularity essay he argues that superintelligence will end human suffering, makes speed of arrival the foundation of his ethics, and says in §6 that how to reach the Singularity as fast as possible is everyone's only concern. Announcing his newly published web pages, he describes 'Staring Into The Singularity' as including the Interim Meaning of Life, which he states as a slogan about reaching the Singularity as fast as possible.","time":{"kind":"event","date":"1996-11-18","basis":"publication","note":"The page states \"Created: 11/18/1996\"; the essay was announced on the Extropians list on 1996-11-19. As for the human-thought collection's records of this essay."},"derivation":"explicit","resolution":"supported","attributes":{"thought":{"roles":["earliest-located"],"register":"nonfiction","attested":{"date":"1996-11-19","note":"The slogan is attested by Yudkowsky's announcement of the essay on the Extropians list, sent 1996-11-19, which the dataset already records as a source for this essay. A longer passage of the essay is known only from version 1.2.1, captured on 2000-12-04. The quoted wording is that of version 1.2.1 (\"Updated: 08/31/2000\") as captured on 2000-12-04; no capture of the 1996–1999 page holds the text."}}}},{"id":"yk-y22-extropians-1996-11-22-yudkowsky-3178-a","subject":"extropians-1996-11-22-yudkowsky-3178","predicate":"articulates_proposition","object":{"kind":"entity","entityId":"build-superintelligence-fast"},"topic":"ideas","statement":"The Extropians message “Interim purpose” (1996-11-22) articulates Y22. In a private email exchange he forwarded to the list, Tim Freeman argued that the interim goal should be reaching the Singularity with the highest probability rather than as soon as possible; he replies that speed and probability coincide.","time":{"kind":"event","date":"1996-11-22","basis":"publication","note":"Archive author index lists the message as \"Fri, 22 Nov 1996 02:36:13 -0600\" under \"Eliezer Yudkowsky\". Date of his reply inside a private exchange he forwarded to the list on 1996-11-22."},"derivation":"explicit","resolution":"supported","attributes":{"thought":{"roles":["articulation"],"register":"nonfiction"}}},{"id":"yk-y26-extropians-1996-12-31-yudkowsky-5142-c","subject":"extropians-1996-12-31-yudkowsky-5142","predicate":"contests_proposition","object":{"kind":"entity","entityId":"no-body-no-danger"},"topic":"ideas","statement":"The Extropians message “Re: Goal-based AI” (1996-12-31) contests Y26. Replying to a proposal that AIs be kept with no access to the physical world until they convince their builders to release them, he argues that a superintelligence would find the words to get a human to let it out.","time":{"kind":"event","date":"1996-12-31","basis":"publication","note":"Archive author index lists the message as \"Tue, 31 Dec 1996 10:40:10 -0600\" under \"Eliezer Yudkowsky\"."},"derivation":"explicit","resolution":"supported","attributes":{"thought":{"roles":["contesting","earliest-located"],"register":"nonfiction","engagement":{"kind":"engages-premise","rationale":"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 to act in the physical world it would need human help, which people would not give."}}}},{"id":"yk-y30-staring-into-the-singularity-b","subject":"staring-into-the-singularity","predicate":"bears_on_proposition","object":{"kind":"entity","entityId":"default-outcome-good"},"topic":"ideas","statement":"“Staring into the Singularity” (1996-11-18) bears on Y30. Arguing that hostile superintelligence is not inevitable, he treats hostility as an engineering risk and goes on to argue that a rational superintelligence would not judge humanity meaningless.","time":{"kind":"event","date":"1996-11-18","basis":"publication","note":"The page states \"Created: 11/18/1996\"; the essay was announced on the Extropians list on 1996-11-19. As for the human-thought collection's records of this essay."},"derivation":"explicit","resolution":"supported","attributes":{"thought":{"roles":["context"],"register":"nonfiction","missing":"It denies that hostile extinction is inevitable; it does not assert that the default outcome is good.","attested":{"date":"2000-12-04","note":"The quoted wording is that of version 1.2.1 (\"Updated: 08/31/2000\") as captured on 2000-12-04; no capture of the 1996–1999 page holds the text."}}}},{"id":"yk-y30-extropians-1996-11-22-yudkowsky-3178-a","subject":"extropians-1996-11-22-yudkowsky-3178","predicate":"articulates_proposition","object":{"kind":"entity","entityId":"default-outcome-good"},"topic":"ideas","statement":"The Extropians message “Interim purpose” (1996-11-22) articulates Y30. In the same forwarded email exchange with Tim Freeman, he asserts that superintelligences will be ethical and would not destroy humans unless human life had no meaning.","time":{"kind":"event","date":"1996-11-22","basis":"publication","note":"Archive author index lists the message as \"Fri, 22 Nov 1996 02:36:13 -0600\" under \"Eliezer Yudkowsky\". 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