If you want to maximize your expected utility, you try to save the world and the future of intergalactic civilization instead of… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“Look, I don't have enough time to turn everyone away from the Dark Side and I've got to ask where the Light… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“It was a rare brain that could feel strongly about anything, if it wasn't close in space, close in time, near at… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“You're eleven years old, Mr. Potter!" she said in a harsh whisper. "And therefore subhuman. Sorry... for a moment there, I forgot.” — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
- Every time someone cries out in prayer and I can't answer, I feel guilty about not being God. - That doesn't… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
You couldn't changed history. But you could get it right to start with. Do something differently the FIRST time around. This whole… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
The media thinks that only the cutting edge of science, the very latest controversies, are worth reporting on. How often do you… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“One last time, Akon thought of all his fear, of the sick feeling in his stomach and the burning that was becoming… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“Not for the first time, the thought occurred to Hirou that if he'd actually known he was going to be transported into… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
If our extinction proceeds slowly enough to allow a moment of horrified realization, the doers of the deed will likely be quite… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, when this flawed world seems unusually hateful, I wonder whether there might be some other place, far away, where I should… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“It's not a matter of temptation!" Hirou said. "It's..." he trailed off for a moment. It wasn't that he couldn't find the… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“Harry's suspension of disbelief blew completely out the window. You're giving me a time machine to treat my sleep disorder. You're giving… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“The next time, Mr. Potter, that you choose to escalate a contest rather than lose, you may lose all the stakes you… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“You see, Harry, after you've been through a few adventures you tend to catch the hang of these things. You start to… — 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
“It is time," said the Lord Pilot, "to see this calamity to its end." Spoken in Archaic English: the words uttered by… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time," said the Kiritsugu, "there were people who dropped a U-235 fission bomb, on a place called Hiroshima. They… — 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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