Quote by Eliezer Yudkowsky Download Open image ““If you can't criticise, you can't optimise.”” — Eliezer Yudkowsky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Being a critic is easy. But if the critic tries to run the operation, he soon understands that nothing is as easy as his… — Haemin Sunim Copy Share Image
“Don't criticize someone doing something you said couldn't be done” — Amelia Earhart Copy Share Image
“Never criticize anything too strongly that you yourself face trouble in accepting it in times of “NO OPTIONS”.” — Neeraj Bhanot Copy Share Image
“For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.” — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
“Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“I may be the optimist and you may be the Pessimist but you can never put a puzzle together with the two of the… — Austin V. Songer Copy Share Image
“Don't criticise the; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.” — Abraham Lincoln 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
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 your argument on a point, ask yourself in advance what you would say if that point were decisively refuted. Would you relinquish your previous conclusion? Would you actually change your mind? If not, maybe that point… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share
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. Actually it did make it less effective, but unfortunately not ineffective. The same could be said of Draco's clever use of reciprocation pressure for an unsolicited gift, a technique which Harry had read about in his… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share
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
