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title: "23 Ifs Quotes By Eliezer Yudkowsky"
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> [If the iron is hot, I desire to believe it is hot, and if it is cool, I desire to believe it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eliezer-yudkowsky/if-the-iron-is-hot-i-desire-to-believe-it-is-hot-and-if-it-is-cool-i/)

[Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eliezer-yudkowsky/)

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> [ If you handed \[character\] a glass that was 90% full, he'd tell you that the 10% empty part proved that no one… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eliezer-yudkowsky/if-you-handed-character-a-glass-that-was-90-full-he-d-tell-you-that/)

[Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eliezer-yudkowsky/)

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> [After all, if you had the complete decision process, you could run it as an AI, and I'd be coding it up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eliezer-yudkowsky/after-all-if-you-had-the-complete-decision-process-you-could-run-it/)

[Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eliezer-yudkowsky/)

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> [If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eliezer-yudkowsky/if-you-are-equally-good-at-explaining-any-outcome-you-have-zero/)

[Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eliezer-yudkowsky/)

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> [If cryonics were a scam it would have far better marketing and be far more popular.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eliezer-yudkowsky/if-cryonics-were-a-scam-it-would-have-far-better-marketing-and-be-far/)

[Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eliezer-yudkowsky/)

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> [If you don’t sign up your kids for cryonics then you are a lousy parent.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eliezer-yudkowsky/if-you-don-t-sign-up-your-kids-for-cryonics-then-you-are-a-lousy/)

[Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eliezer-yudkowsky/)

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> [If people got hit on the head by a baseball bat every week, pretty soon they would invent reasons why getting hit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eliezer-yudkowsky/if-people-got-hit-on-the-head-by-a-baseball-bat-every-week-pretty/)

[Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eliezer-yudkowsky/)

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> [When you think of intelligence, don't think of a college professor; think of human beings as opposed to chimpanzees. If you don't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eliezer-yudkowsky/when-you-think-of-intelligence-don-t-think-of-a-college-professor/)

[Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eliezer-yudkowsky/)

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> [Intelligence is the source of technology. If we can use technology to improve intelligence, that closes the loop and potentially creates a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eliezer-yudkowsky/intelligence-is-the-source-of-technology-if-we-can-use-technology-to/)

[Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eliezer-yudkowsky/)

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> [If you want to maximize your expected utility, you try to save the world and the future of intergalactic civilization instead of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eliezer-yudkowsky/if-you-want-to-maximize-your-expected-utility-you-try-to-save-the/)

[Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eliezer-yudkowsky/)

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> [Remember, if you succeed in everything you try in life, you're living below your full potential and you should take up more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eliezer-yudkowsky/remember-if-you-succeed-in-everything-you-try-in-life-you-re-living/)

[Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eliezer-yudkowsky/)

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> [If you want to build a recursively self-improving AI, have it go through a billion sequential self-modifications, become vastly smarter than you,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eliezer-yudkowsky/if-you-want-to-build-a-recursively-self-improving-ai-have-it-go/)

[Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eliezer-yudkowsky/)

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> [The strength of a theory is not what it allows, but what it prohibits; if you can invent an equally persuasive explanation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eliezer-yudkowsky/the-strength-of-a-theory-is-not-what-it-allows-but-what-it-prohibits/)

[Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eliezer-yudkowsky/)

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> [This is one of theprimary mechanisms whereby, if a fool says the sun is shining, we do notcorrectly discard this as irrelevant…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eliezer-yudkowsky/this-is-one-of-theprimary-mechanisms-whereby-if-a-fool-says-the-sun/)

[Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eliezer-yudkowsky/)

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> [It is triple ultra forbidden to respond to criticism with violence. There are a very few injunctions in the human art of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eliezer-yudkowsky/it-is-triple-ultra-forbidden-to-respond-to-criticism-with-violence/)

[Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eliezer-yudkowsky/)

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> [If you've been cryocrastinating, putting off signing up for cryonics "until later", don't think that you've "gotten away with it so far".…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eliezer-yudkowsky/if-you-ve-been-cryocrastinating-putting-off-signing-up-for-cryonics/)

[Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eliezer-yudkowsky/)

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> [Our coherent extrapolated volition is our wish if we knew more, thought faster, were more the people we wished we were, had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eliezer-yudkowsky/our-coherent-extrapolated-volition-is-our-wish-if-we-knew-more/)

[Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eliezer-yudkowsky/)

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> [If I'm teaching deep things, then I view it as important to make people feel like they're learning deep things, because otherwise,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eliezer-yudkowsky/if-i-m-teaching-deep-things-then-i-view-it-as-important-to-make/)

[Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eliezer-yudkowsky/)

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> [The purest case of an intelligence explosion would be an Artificial Intelligence rewriting its own source code. The key idea is that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eliezer-yudkowsky/the-purest-case-of-an-intelligence-explosion-would-be-an-artificial/)

[Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eliezer-yudkowsky/)

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> [Litmus test: If you can't describe Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage and explain why people find it counterintuitive, you don't know enough…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eliezer-yudkowsky/litmus-test-if-you-can-t-describe-ricardo-s-law-of-comparative/)

[Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eliezer-yudkowsky/)

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> [If dragons were common, and you could look at one in the zoo - but zebras were a rare legendary creature that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eliezer-yudkowsky/if-dragons-were-common-and-you-could-look-at-one-in-the-zoo-but/)

[Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eliezer-yudkowsky/)

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> [You cannot 'rationalize' what is not rational to begin with - as if lying were called 'truthization.' There is no way to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eliezer-yudkowsky/you-cannot-rationalize-what-is-not-rational-to-begin-with-as-if-lying/)

[Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eliezer-yudkowsky/)

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> [There are no surprising facts, only models that are surprised by facts; and if a model is surprised by the facts, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eliezer-yudkowsky/there-are-no-surprising-facts-only-models-that-are-surprised-by-facts/)

[Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eliezer-yudkowsky/)

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## Other authors on Ifs

## More by Eliezer Yudkowsky

> [“But I really am Ravenclaw, you know, not Slytherin. I don't want to rule the universe. I just think it could be more sensibly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eliezer-yudkowsky/but-i-really-am-ravenclaw-you-know-not-slytherin-i-don-t-want-to-rule/)

[Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eliezer-yudkowsky/)

> [“‎If you regard evidence as a constraint and seek to free yourself, you sell yourself into the chains of your whims. For you cannot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eliezer-yudkowsky/if-you-regard-evidence-as-a-constraint-and-seek-to-free-yourself-you/)

[Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eliezer-yudkowsky/)

> [“I am not sure how to explain it, except that - truth matters to us.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eliezer-yudkowsky/i-am-not-sure-how-to-explain-it-except-that-truth-matters-to-us/)

[Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eliezer-yudkowsky/)

> [I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eliezer-yudkowsky/i-see-little-hope-for-democracy-as-an-effective-form-of-government/)

[Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eliezer-yudkowsky/)

> [“He really really really shouldn't have done that. Amazing how much more obvious that became one second after it was too late.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eliezer-yudkowsky/he-really-really-really-shouldn-t-have-done-that-amazing-how-much/)

[Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eliezer-yudkowsky/)

> [I'm wondering if there's a spell to make lightning flash in the background whenever I make an ominous resolution.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eliezer-yudkowsky/i-m-wondering-if-there-s-a-spell-to-make-lightning-flash-in-the/)

[Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eliezer-yudkowsky/)

> [“There’s a technique we use in our local rationalist cluster called “Is That Your True Rejection?”, and it works like this: Before you stake…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eliezer-yudkowsky/there-s-a-technique-we-use-in-our-local-rationalist-cluster-called-is/)

[Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eliezer-yudkowsky/)

> [Lonely dissent doesn't feel like going to school dressed in black. It feels like going to school wearing a clown suit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eliezer-yudkowsky/lonely-dissent-doesn-t-feel-like-going-to-school-dressed-in-black-it/)

[Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eliezer-yudkowsky/)

> [“Knowing that Draco's hopeful face had probably been drilled into him by months of practice did not make it any less effective, Harry observed.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eliezer-yudkowsky/knowing-that-draco-s-hopeful-face-had-probably-been-drilled-into-him/)

[Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eliezer-yudkowsky/)

> [The strength of a theory is not what it allows, but what it prohibits; if you can invent an equally persuasive explanation for any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eliezer-yudkowsky/the-strength-of-a-theory-is-not-what-it-allows-but-what-it-prohibits/)

[Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eliezer-yudkowsky/)

> [It is triple ultra forbidden to respond to criticism with violence. There are a very few injunctions in the human art of rationality that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eliezer-yudkowsky/it-is-triple-ultra-forbidden-to-respond-to-criticism-with-violence/)

[Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eliezer-yudkowsky/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eliezer-yudkowsky/the-human-species-was-not-born-into-a-market-economy-bees-won-t-sell/)

[Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eliezer-yudkowsky/)

> [“Frigideiro! " said Hermione again from the desk next to him. Her water was solid ice and there were white crystals forming on the rim…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eliezer-yudkowsky/frigideiro-said-hermione-again-from-the-desk-next-to-him-her-water/)

[Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eliezer-yudkowsky/)

> [“And then Harry Potter had launched in to a speech that was inspiring, yet vague. A speech to the effect that Fred and George…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eliezer-yudkowsky/and-then-harry-potter-had-launched-in-to-a-speech-that-was-inspiring/)

[Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eliezer-yudkowsky/)

> [“And I know that I'd just make myself unhappy by comparing that reality to... something perfect that I built up in my imagination.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eliezer-yudkowsky/and-i-know-that-i-d-just-make-myself-unhappy-by-comparing-that/)

[Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eliezer-yudkowsky/)

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