When you are older, you will learn that the first and foremost thing which any ordinary person does is nothing.
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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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Birth: | 11th September, 1979 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Researcher, Writer |
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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