- With respect, Professor McGonagall, I'm not quite sure you understand what I'm trying to do here. - With respect, Mr. Potter,… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Do not flinch from experiences that might destroy your beliefs. The thought you cannot think controls you more than thoughts you speak… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
He'd met other prodigies in mathematical competitions. In fact he'd been thoroughly trounced by competitors who probably spent literally all day practising… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
I don't want to rule the universe. I just think it could be more sensibly organised. — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
We tend to see individual differences instead of human universals. Thus, when someone says the word 'intelligence,' we think of Einstein instead… — 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
[...] intelligent people only have a certain amount of time (measured in subjective time spent thinking about religion) to become atheists. After… — 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
When you think of intelligence, don't think of a college professor; think of human beings as opposed to chimpanzees. If you don't… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
My experience is that journalists report on the nearest-cliche algorithm, which is extremely uninformative because there aren't many cliches, the truth is… — 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
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