"I only want power so I can get…" — Eliezer Yudkowsky

"I only want power so I can get books."

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

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67 Quotes by Eliezer Yudkowsky

Eliezer Yudkowsky has 67 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

There is light in the world, and it is us!
That which the truth nourishes should thrive.
If the iron is hot, I desire to believe it is hot, and if it is cool, I desire to…
Between hindsight bias, fake causality, positive bias, anchoring/priming, et cetera et cetera, and above all the dreaded confirmation bias, once…
The strength of a theory is not what it allows, but what it prohibits; if you can invent an equally…
The police officer who puts their life on the line with no superpowers, no X-Ray vision, no super-strength, no ability…
If people got hit on the head by a baseball bat every week, pretty soon they would invent reasons why…
There are no surprising facts, only models that are surprised by facts; and if a model is surprised by the…
Science has heroes, but no gods. The great Names are not our superiors, or even our rivals, they are passed…
You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.
Do not flinch from experiences that might destroy your beliefs. The thought you cannot think controls you more than thoughts…
I ask the fundamental question of rationality: Why do you believe what you believe? What do you think you know…

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
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Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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