{"entities":[{"id":"eliezer-yudkowsky","name":"Eliezer Yudkowsky","type":"person"},{"id":"extropians-1997-09-24-yudkowsky","shortName":"Yudkowsky, Extropians message of 1997-09-24","type":"document"},{"id":"extropians-1997-09-25-yudkowsky-4400","shortName":"Yudkowsky, Extropians message of 1997-09-25 (4400)","type":"document"},{"id":"extropians-1997-09-26-yudkowsky-4420","shortName":"Yudkowsky, Extropians message of 1997-09-26 (4420)","type":"document"}],"claims":[{"id":"ts-a4-yudkowsky-1997-09-24-context","subject":"extropians-1997-09-24-yudkowsky","predicate":"bears_on_proposition","object":{"kind":"entity","entityId":"fast-or-hard-takeoff"},"topic":"ideas","statement":"Yudkowsky’s message of 1997-09-24 says its author continued the standard Singularity calculation to find that three years after human-equivalent AIs, AIs reach infinite speed.","time":{"kind":"event","date":"1997-09-24","basis":"publication","note":"Sent header: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 20:33:34 -0500 (sender-local date)."},"derivation":"explicit","resolution":"supported","attributes":{"thought":{"roles":["context"],"register":"nonfiction","missing":"Three years from human-equivalent AI to infinite speed, not hours to months; who does the research is not stated."}}},{"id":"yk-y01-extropians-1997-09-26-yudkowsky-4420-c","subject":"extropians-1997-09-26-yudkowsky-4420","predicate":"contests_proposition","object":{"kind":"entity","entityId":"switch-off-if-dangerous"},"topic":"ideas","statement":"The Extropians message “Re: Singularity: Generation gap” (1997-09-26) contests Y01. In a reply to Eric Watt Forste about Singularity attitudes, he reports that a correspondent proposed simply pulling the plug on a transhuman intelligence if it looked dangerous, and answers that such a precaution would fail even against a human-level mind that had copied itself across the Internet.","time":{"kind":"event","date":"1997-09-26","basis":"publication","note":"Archive author index lists the message as \"Fri, 26 Sep 1997 18:20:36 -0500\" under \"Eliezer S. 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 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-y20-extropians-1997-09-25-yudkowsky-4400-b","subject":"extropians-1997-09-25-yudkowsky-4400","predicate":"bears_on_proposition","object":{"kind":"entity","entityId":"risk-is-film-fiction"},"topic":"ideas","statement":"The Extropians message “Re: Singularity: Generation gap” (1997-09-25) bears on Y20. Replying to a list member who said that fear of a Singularity like Vinge's 'Blight' is a fear of being wiped out rather than discomfort with computers, he attributes that fear to xenophobia, perhaps passed on through fiction and the popular 'Borg' image, and says people at ease with computers are less likely to hold it.","time":{"kind":"event","date":"1997-09-25","basis":"publication","note":"Archive author index lists the message as \"Thu, 25 Sep 1997 20:51:50 -0500\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\". Sent header: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 20:51:50 -0500."},"derivation":"explicit","resolution":"supported","attributes":{"thought":{"roles":["context"],"register":"nonfiction","missing":"It explains fear of a Singularity as fiction-fed xenophobia while conceding a risk; it does not hold that films are a fair guide to the risk."}}},{"id":"yk-y26-extropians-1997-09-26-yudkowsky-4420-b","subject":"extropians-1997-09-26-yudkowsky-4420","predicate":"bears_on_proposition","object":{"kind":"entity","entityId":"no-body-no-danger"},"topic":"ideas","statement":"The Extropians message “Re: Singularity: Generation gap” (1997-09-26) bears on Y26. After criticising Singularity sceptics who propose pulling the plug or keeping an AI 'bottled up', he lists among the insights the Singularity concept gave him that protein synthesis machines may be reachable over the Internet.","time":{"kind":"event","date":"1997-09-26","basis":"publication","note":"Archive author index lists the message as \"Fri, 26 Sep 1997 18:20:36 -0500\" under \"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky\"."},"derivation":"explicit","resolution":"supported","attributes":{"thought":{"roles":["context"],"register":"nonfiction","missing":"A passing list item that protein synthesis machines may be reachable over the Internet; it does not argue the point."}}},{"id":"ap-eliezer-yudkowsky-extropians-1997-09-24-yudkowsky","subject":"eliezer-yudkowsky","predicate":"authored","object":{"kind":"entity","entityId":"extropians-1997-09-24-yudkowsky"},"topic":"ideas","statement":"The mailing-list message “Singularity: Generation gap” (1997-09-24) is sent under the name Eliezer S. 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