It is triple ultra forbidden to respond to criticism with violence. There are a very few injunctions in the human art of… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“We underestimate the power of science, and overestimate the power of personal observation. A peer-reviewed, journal-published, replicated report is worth far more… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“I've seen people severely messed up by their own knowledge of biases. They have more ammunition with which to argue against anything… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty. — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“Because the way people are built, Hermione, the way people are built to feel inside -" Harry put a hand over his… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“If the box contains a diamond, I desire to believe that the box contains a diamond; If the box does not contain… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“There's a whole [...] art to finding the truth and accomplishing value from inside a human mind : we have to learn… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Through rationality we shall become awesome, and invent and test systematic methods for making people awesome, and plot to optimize everything in… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“I have no great fondness for the universe, but I do live there” — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Rationality is the master lifehack which distinguishes which other lifehacks to use. — 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
“Doing worse with more knowledge means you are doing something very wrong.” — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“The Way of Bayes is also an imprecise art, at least the way I'm holding forth upon it. These blog posts are… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization. — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“Then you get the wrong answer and you can't go to the Moon that way! Nature isn't a person, you can't trick… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“One of chief pieces of advice I give to aspiring rationalists is "Don't try to be clever." And, "Listen to those quiet,… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
I ask the fundamental question of rationality: Why do you believe what you believe? What do you think you know and how… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
The people I know who seem to make unusual efforts at rationality, are unusually honest, or, failing that, at least have unusually… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“You need one whole hell of a lot of rationality before it does anything but lead you into new and interesting mistakes.” — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“I have a feeling," Harry said finally, "that we're coming at this from the wrong angle. There's a tale I once heard… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“Lightness. Let the winds of evidence blow you about as though you are a leaf, with no direction of your own. Beware… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“People go funny in the head when talking about politics. The evolutionary reasons for this are so obvious as to be worth… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“P.C. Hodgell said - That which can be destroyed by the truth should be . Do not flinch from experiences that might… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“If you didn't predict that something would happen, if it took you completely by surprise, then what you believed about the world… — 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
