The police officer who puts their life on the line with no superpowers, no X-Ray vision, no super-strength, no ability to fly,… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
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".… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Remember, if you succeed in everything you try in life, you're living below your full potential and you should take up more… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“You know what? This isn't about your feelings. A human life, with all its joys and all its pains, adding up over… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
When something is universal enough in our everyday lives, we take it for granted to the point of forgetting it exists. — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“The most dangerous truth a Confessor knows is that the rules of society are just consensual hallucinations. Choosing to wake up from… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
The purpose of a moral philosophy is not to look delightfully strange and counterintuitive or to provide employment to bioethicists. The purpose… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“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… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“If you regard evidence as a constraint and seek to free yourself, you sell yourself into the chains of your whims. For you cannot… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“I am not sure how to explain it, except that - truth matters to us.” — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“He really really really shouldn't have done that. Amazing how much more obvious that became one second after it was too late.” — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
I'm wondering if there's a spell to make lightning flash in the background whenever I make an ominous resolution. — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“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… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Lonely dissent doesn't feel like going to school dressed in black. It feels like going to school wearing a clown suit. — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“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.… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
The strength of a theory is not what it allows, but what it prohibits; if you can invent an equally persuasive explanation for any… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
It is triple ultra forbidden to respond to criticism with violence. There are a very few injunctions in the human art of rationality that… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
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… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
