Best Eliezer Yudkowsky Sayings
- My successes already accomplished have mostly been taking existing science and getting people to apply it in their everyday lives. Accomplished
- Anything that could give rise to smarter-than-human intelligence - in the form of Artificial Intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, or neuroscience-based human intelligence enhancement - wins hands… Artificial
- A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you… Both
- Let the winds of evidence blow you about as though you are a leaf, with no direction of your own. Beware lest you fight a… Beware
- To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization. Argument
- If our extinction proceeds slowly enough to allow a moment of horrified realization, the doers of the deed will likely be quite taken aback on… Aback
- The systematic experimental study of reproducible errors of human reasoning, and what these errors reveal about underlying mental processes, is known as the heuristics and… Biases
- A scientist worthy of a lab coat should be able to make original discoveries while wearing a clown suit, or give a lecture in a… Able
- Textbook science is beautiful! Textbook science is comprehensible, unlike mere fascinating words that can never be truly beautiful. Elementary science textbooks describe simple theories, and… Any
- By far, the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it. Artificial
- When something is universal enough in our everyday lives, we take it for granted to the point of forgetting it exists. Everyday
- Since the rise of Homo sapiens, human beings have been the smartest minds around. But very shortly - on a historical scale, that is -… Been
- I am a full-time Research Fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, a small 501(c)(3) public charity supported primarily by individual donations. Charity
- The purpose of a moral philosophy is not to look delightfully strange and counterintuitive or to provide employment to bioethicists. The purpose is to guide… Beauty
- Intelligence is the source of technology. If we can use technology to improve intelligence, that closes the loop and potentially creates a positive feedback cycle. Closes
- Transhumanists are not fond of death. We would stop it if we could. To this end, we support research that holds out hope of a… Death
- If you want to maximize your expected utility, you try to save the world and the future of intergalactic civilization instead of donating your money… Civilization