Eliezer Yudkowsky Quotes

• When you are older, you will learn that the first and foremost thing which any ordinary person does is nothing.

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• A true rationalist ought to be effective in the real world.

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• Doing worse with more knowledge means you are doing something very wrong.

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• Existential depression has always annoyed me; it is one of the world’s most pointless forms of suffering.

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• What people really believe doesn’t feel like a belief, it feels like the way the world is.

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• To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.

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• I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit in their own destruction.

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• I don’t want to rule the universe. I just think it could be more sensibly organised.

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• Trying and getting hurt can’t possibly be worse for you than being… stuck.

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• World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation.

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• Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkness and force it to face them.

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• There is light in the world, and it is us!

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• Every mystery ever solved had been a puzzle from the dawn of the human species right up until someone solved it.

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• There were mysterious questions, but a mysterious answer was a contradiction in terms.

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• To worship a sacred mystery was just to worship your own ignorance.

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• I only want power so I can get books.

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Eliezer Yudkowsky (16)

Birth:	11th September, 1979
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Researcher, Writer

About

Eliezer Shlomo Yudkowsky is an American writer. He is a Research Fellow and co-founder at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, a private research nonprofit based in Berkeley, California. He is one of the foremost experts on the Singularity and the development of Friendly Artificial Intelligence including the article What is Friendly AI? published on KurzweilAI.net. The Lifeboat Foundation endorses his proposal for Friendly AI as the solution to advances in Robotics. His fan fiction story, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, uses plot elements from J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series to illustrate topics in science.

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