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Knowledge Quotes by Eliezer Yudkowsky
- The strength of a theory is not what it allows, but what it prohibits; if you can invent an equally persuasive explanation for any outcome,…
- If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.
- Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any…
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