"If you are equally good at explaining any……" — Eliezer Yudkowsky

"If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge."

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67 Quotes by Eliezer Yudkowsky

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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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