"I am tempted to say that a doctorate……" — Eliezer Yudkowsky
"I am tempted to say that a doctorate in AI would be negatively useful, but I am not one to hold someone’s reckless youth against them – just because you acquired a doctorate in AI doesn’t mean you should be permanently disqualified."
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Eliezer Yudkowsky
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67 Quotes by Eliezer Yudkowsky
Eliezer Yudkowsky has 67 quotes on this site.
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There is light in the world, and it is us!
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That which the truth nourishes should thrive.
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If the iron is hot, I desire to believe it is hot, and if it is cool, I desire to…
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Between hindsight bias, fake causality, positive bias, anchoring/priming, et cetera et cetera, and above all the dreaded confirmation bias, once…
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The strength of a theory is not what it allows, but what it prohibits; if you can invent an equally…
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The police officer who puts their life on the line with no superpowers, no X-Ray vision, no super-strength, no ability…
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If people got hit on the head by a baseball bat every week, pretty soon they would invent reasons why…
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There are no surprising facts, only models that are surprised by facts; and if a model is surprised by the…
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Science has heroes, but no gods. The great Names are not our superiors, or even our rivals, they are passed…
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You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.
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Do not flinch from experiences that might destroy your beliefs. The thought you cannot think controls you more than thoughts…
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I ask the fundamental question of rationality: Why do you believe what you believe? What do you think you know…
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
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I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something…
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The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first…
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Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly…
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I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
— Andrew Carnegie
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Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
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Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to…
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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
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To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired…
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Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
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Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to…
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