“I am not sure how to explain it, except that - truth matters to us.” — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires… — 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
Let the winds of evidence blow you about as though you are a leaf, with no direction of your own. Beware lest… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“Do not think that fairness to all sides means balancing yourself evenly between positions; truth is not handed out in equal portions… — 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
“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 I'm teaching deep things, then I view it as important to make people feel like they're learning deep things, because otherwise,… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
You cannot 'rationalize' what is not rational to begin with - as if lying were called 'truthization.' There is no way to… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“Lies propagate, that's what I'm saying. You've got to tell more lies to cover them up, lie about every fact that's connected… — 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
