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Archive 2026-09-24 · 185 entries · 14 chapters

If anyone builds it

One person's attempt to think through the claim that building superhuman AI kills everyone: whether it is true, what it would mean to survive it, and what it would take to avoid it. The book by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares is the starting point, and its online resources are archived here in full as the reference. An AI drafts and annotates; a person revises.

  1. The argument 5

    The book's case as a chain of five claims, each evaluated on its own: the authors' case, the best objections, where the evidence stands, and a verdict.

  2. Survive 4

    What it would mean for a person to survive this, in each of the worlds the argument allows, and what someone can actually do. The primary direction of the site.

  3. Avoid 2

    The civilisational question: which interventions actually carry the outcome, what the book gets right about them, and what it leaves out. The secondary direction of the site.

The archive

  1. Introduction Hard Calls and Easy Calls 9
  2. Chapter 1 Humanity’s Special Power 19
  3. Chapter 2 Grown, Not Crafted 18
  4. Chapter 3 Learning to Want 7
  5. Chapter 4 You Don’t Get What You Train For 17
  6. Chapter 5 Its Favorite Things 32
  7. Chapter 6 We’d Lose 9
  8. Part II One Extinction Scenario 8
  9. Chapter 10 A Cursed Problem 6
  10. Chapter 11 An Alchemy, Not a Science 14
  11. Chapter 12 “I Don’t Want to Be Alarmist” 13
  12. Chapter 13 Shut It Down 17
  13. Appendix A Draft of a Treaty, with Annotations 16
  14. Appendix Errata

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