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Eliezer Yudkowsky
Eliezer Yudkowsky
American Writer
Born: Sep 11, 1979
Intelligence People Science Think World You
Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward
By far, the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it. Eliezer Yudkowsky
Artificial Intelligence People Intelligence Too Danger Understand Conclude Greatest Greatest Danger Artificial Far Early
You cannot 'rationalize' what is not rational to begin with - as if lying were called 'truthization.' There is no way to obtain more truth for a proposition by bribery, flattery, or the most passionate argument - you can make more people believe the proposition, but you cannot make it more true. Eliezer Yudkowsky
Truth You People Argument Believe Lying Way More More People Rational Rationalize Proposition True Most Obtain Make Passionate Were Begin Cannot Flattery Bribery
A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance. Eliezer Yudkowsky
Truth You Ignorance Solemn Relinquish Both Pursue Higher Feel Know Vow Itch Than Curiosity Burning Requires Ignorant Your Desire
The human species was not born into a market economy. Bees won't sell you honey if you offer them an electronic funds transfer. The human species imagined money into existence, and it exists - for us, not mice or wasps - because we go on believing in it. Eliezer Yudkowsky
You Money Honey Market Market Economy Born Economy Because Go Bees Existence Exists Sell Mice Offer Human Transfer Them Us Electronic Human Species Wasps Species Believing Funds Imagined
Nothing you'll read as breaking news will ever hold a candle to the sheer beauty of settled science. Textbook science has carefully phrased explanations for new students, math derived step by step, plenty of experiments as illustration, and test problems. Eliezer Yudkowsky
News You Science Problems Will Beauty Nothing Illustration Carefully Settled Plenty Students Step New Read Sheer Test Math Textbook Candle Hold Experiments Breaking Explanations Derived Ever
Do not flinch from experiences that might destroy your beliefs. The thought you cannot think controls you more than thoughts you speak aloud. Submit yourself to ordeals and test yourself in fire. Relinquish the emotion which rests upon a mistaken belief, and seek to feel fully that emotion which fits the facts. Eliezer Yudkowsky
Thoughts You Yourself Speak Thought Fire Submit Think Destroy Seek Relinquish More Rests Emotion Facts Feel Aloud Mistaken Test Fits Than Controls Experiences Cannot Which Might Your Fully Belief Beliefs
Let the winds of evidence blow you about as though you are a leaf, with no direction of your own. Beware lest you fight a rearguard retreat against the evidence, grudgingly conceding each foot of ground only when forced, feeling cheated. Surrender to the truth as quickly as you can. Eliezer Yudkowsky
Truth You Surrender Fight Feeling Own Evidence Though About Winds Direction Only Foot Cheated Leaf Beware Retreat Forced Quickly Blow Against Your Ground Lest Each
Textbook science is beautiful! Textbook science is comprehensible, unlike mere fascinating words that can never be truly beautiful. Elementary science textbooks describe simple theories, and simplicity is the core of scientific beauty. Fascinating words have no power, nor yet any meaning, without the math. Eliezer Yudkowsky
Beautiful Science Words Simple Simplicity Power Beauty Unlike Comprehensible Never Mere Without Scientific Math Nor Truly Textbook Textbooks Any Meaning Theories Fascinating Describe Elementary Core
In our skulls, we carry around 3 pounds of slimy, wet, greyish tissue, corrugated like crumpled toilet paper. You wouldn't think, to look at the unappetizing lump, that it was some of the most powerful stuff in the known universe. Eliezer Yudkowsky
You Think Universe Our Paper Carry Some Pounds Powerful Stuff Like Look Most Most Powerful Known Around Wet Tissue Toilet Toilet Paper Lump
My successes already accomplished have mostly been taking existing science and getting people to apply it in their everyday lives. Eliezer Yudkowsky
Science People Everyday Everyday Lives Taking Mostly Been Accomplished Existing Getting Successes Lives Apply
To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization. Eliezer Yudkowsky
Argument Clever Rationality
The systematic experimental study of reproducible errors of human reasoning, and what these errors reveal about underlying mental processes, is known as the heuristics and biases program in cognitive psychology. This program has made discoveries highly relevant to assessors of global catastrophic risks. Eliezer Yudkowsky
Risks Made Relevant Systematic About Mental Mental Processes Catastrophic Study Highly Global Biases Underlying Known Reveal Discoveries Errors Human Experimental Psychology Processes Reasoning Cognitive Program
The obvious choice isn't always the best choice, but sometimes, by golly, it is. I don't stop looking as soon I find an obvious answer, but if I go on looking, and the obvious-seeming answer still seems obvious, I don't feel guilty about keeping it. Eliezer Yudkowsky
Best Sometimes Looking Guilty Find About Seems Feel Soon Obvious Answer Always Still Go Stop Choice Keeping
When something is universal enough in our everyday lives, we take it for granted to the point of forgetting it exists. Eliezer Yudkowsky
Enough Everyday Everyday Lives Our Something Point Take Exists Forgetting Granted Lives Universal
Since the rise of Homo sapiens, human beings have been the smartest minds around. But very shortly - on a historical scale, that is - we can expect technology to break the upper bound on intelligence that has held for the last few tens of thousands of years. Eliezer Yudkowsky
Technology Intelligence Few Minds Scale Thousands Thousands Of Years Rise Tens Tens Of Thousands Bound Smartest Since Around Been Years Historical Very Expect Upper Human Human Beings Break Held Sapiens Beings Homo Homo Sapiens Last
I keep trying to explain to people that the archetype of intelligence is not Dustin Hoffman in 'The Rain Man;' it is a human being, period. It is squishy things that explode in a vacuum, leaving footprints on their moon. Eliezer Yudkowsky
Man Rain People Intelligence Human Being Moon Footprints Period Leaving Trying Dustin Hoffman Human Being Explain Explode Keep Things Vacuum
Intelligence is the source of technology. If we can use technology to improve intelligence, that closes the loop and potentially creates a positive feedback cycle. Eliezer Yudkowsky
Positive Technology Intelligence Feedback Positive Feedback Potentially Loop Source Improve Closes Creates Cycle Use
Transhumanists are not fond of death. We would stop it if we could. To this end, we support research that holds out hope of a future in which humanity has defeated death. Eliezer Yudkowsky
Death Hope Future Humanity Research Out Would Fond Could Support End Stop Holds Which Defeated
If I could create a world where people lived forever, or at the very least a few billion years, I would do so. I don't think humanity will always be stuck in the awkward stage we now occupy, when we are smart enough to create enormous problems for ourselves, but not quite smart enough to solve them. Eliezer Yudkowsky
Humanity People World Smart Problems Will Few Stage Think Enormous Enough Ourselves Would Solve Could Stuck Occupy Always Least Years Very Forever Quite Where Them Create If I Could Billion Lived Now Awkward
If you want to maximize your expected utility, you try to save the world and the future of intergalactic civilization instead of donating your money to the society for curing rare diseases and cute puppies. Eliezer Yudkowsky
Future You World Money Try Rare Cute Society Save The World Puppies Civilization Instead Curing Expected Diseases Maximize Want Your Utility Save

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