That Alien Message

Eliezer Yudkowsky.
Published 2008, available online. Part of the 'Sequences'. Apparently not all his fiction is on his main site under Fiction :(
==First read (May 19th 2012)==
===Format===
Online, 18472 characters, putting it at 10 'standard' pages.
===Journal===
Read it on May 19th 2012, after looking at Yudkowsky's latest comments on LessWrong and seeing one with just a link to this. The name intrigued me, and it turned out to be an interesting sort of short story, but part of his 'Sequences', so intended to be instructional.
I thought it was a fascinating and compelling way of imagining the way a trapped AI might escape its confines with incredible ease, and how it might see us. Bravo!
===Rating===
3
==Second read (September 11th 2012)==
===Format===
As above.
===Journal===
It had returned to my consciousness a couple of times since first reading it, and on the 11th of September 2012 I was looking at short stories on the wiki and reread this one.
Still good.
===Rating===
3
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