1997
Selekoa’s 7 records dated 1997, in date order, grouped by topic.
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Ideas & lineages 7 records
September 1997
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The mailing-list message “Singularity: Generation gap” (1997-09-24) is sent under the name Eliezer S. Yudkowsky. Evidence ↗· publication · dated to the day
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. Evidence ↗· publication · dated to the day
The Extropians message “Re: Singularity: Generation gap” of 1997-09-25, archive message 4400, is sent under the name Eliezer S. Yudkowsky. Evidence ↗· publication · dated to the day
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. Evidence ↗Yudkowsky, Extropians message of 1997-09-25 (4400) →Claim page →
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The Extropians message “Re: Singularity: Generation gap” of 1997-09-26, archive message 4420, is sent under the name Eliezer S. Yudkowsky. Evidence ↗· publication · dated to the day
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. Evidence ↗Yudkowsky, Extropians message of 1997-09-26 (4420) →Claim page →
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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. Evidence ↗Yudkowsky, Extropians message of 1997-09-26 (4420) →Claim page →