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You're eleven years old, Mr. Potter!" she said in a harsh whisper."And therefore subhuman. Sorry ... for a moment there, I forgot. — Eliezer Yudkowsky
But what happens after you break - that, too, is part of being a hero.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
Don't trust thoughts because you think them, but because they obey specific trustworthy rules.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
If you once tell a lie, the truth is ever after your enemy.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
You can't talk to thermodynamics and you can't pray to probability theory. You
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
Evil done in the name of good. Evil done in the name of evil. Which is worse?
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
Also Harry was in love. It would be a three-way wedding: him, the Time-Turner, and Professor Quirrell.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
As you would be kind to others, be kinder to yourself as well.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
A Gryffindor would say that people don't become who they should be, because they're afraid.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
A random key does not open a random lock just because they are "both random.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
You cannot obtain more truth for a fixed proposition by arguing it. To improve our beliefs, we must necessarily change our beliefs.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
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If you handed [character] a glass that was 90% full, he'd tell you that the 10% empty part proved that no one really cared about water.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
I am going to tear apart your pathetic little magical remnant of the Dark Ages into pieces smaller than its constituent atoms.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
Clever kids in Ravenclaw, evil kids in Slytherin, wannabe heroes in Gryffindor, and everyone who does the actual work in Hufflepuff.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
He was personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society he grew up in.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
Trying and getting hurt can't possibly be worse for you than being ... stuck.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
Reality is always lawful," said Harry, "even if we don't know the law.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
I am not sure how to explain it, except that - truth matters to us.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
For it is a sad rule that whenever you are most in need of your art as a rationalist, that is when you are most likely to forget it.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
I don't want to rule the universe. I just think it could be more sensibly organised.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
If what you believe doesn't depend om what you see, you've been blinded as effectively as by poking out your eyeballs.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
A true rationalist ought to be effective in the real world.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
A single Lie That Must Be Protected can block someone's progress into advanced rationality. No, it's not harmless fun.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
Moore's Law of Mad Science: Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
(...) Where are you trying to go?"Harry hesitated. "I'm not really sure," he said.
"Then perhaps you are already there. — Eliezer Yudkowsky
You see, Miss Granger, people do not grow up because of time, people grow up when they are placed in grownup situations.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
Look, I don't have enough time to turn everyone away from the Dark Side and I've got to ask where the Light can gain the most advantage the fastest -
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
Logic stays true, wherever you may go,So logic never tells you where you live. — Eliezer Yudkowsky
I wouldn't be surprised if tomorrow was the Final Dawn, the last sunrise before the Earth and Sun are reshaped into computing elements.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
I wasn't one of the dreamers, back then. I was just wrapped up in my private blanket of hurt.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
Stupidity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
That which the truth nourishes should thrive.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
Um. I'm going to have to eat a kitten, aren't I? Oh god, I'm going to have to eat a kitten. The
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
To die was not to leave the world, not to escape somewhere else; it was the simultaneous change of every piece of yourself into nothing.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
There are no surprising facts, only models that are surprised by facts; and if a model is surprised by the facts, it is no credit to that model.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
A friend isn't someone you use once and then throw away, a friend is someone you use over and over again.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
You need one whole hell of a lot of rationality before it does anything but lead you into new and interesting mistakes.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
I've lived the lives of all the characters in all my books, and all their mighty wisdom thunders in my head.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
After all, if you had the complete decision process, you could run it as an AI, and I'd be coding it up right now.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
It's okay to bribe people with books, right?
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
Hermione's eyes lit up with a terrible light of helpfulness and something in the back of Harry's brain screamed in desperate humiliation.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
Every mystery ever solved had been a puzzle from the dawn of the human species right up until someone solved it.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkness and force it to face them.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
It wasn't cheating, but it was Science, which was almost as good.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
If you don't sign up your kids for cryonics then you are a lousy parent.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
If cryonics were a scam it would have far better marketing and be far more popular.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
The world's greatest fool may say the sun is shining, but that doesn't make it dark out.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
Rationality is the master lifehack which distinguishes which other lifehacks to use.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
I only want power so I can get books.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
People who have time to plan are scary.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
Apparently people who were in books actually sounded like a book when they talked. This was quite the surprising discovery.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
If you can't criticise, you can't optimise.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
When the basic problem is your ignorance, clever strategies for bypassing your ignorance lead to shooting yourself in the foot.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
When you walk past a bookshop you haven't visited before, you have to go in and look around. That's the family rule.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
What people really believe doesn't feel like a BELIEF, it feels like the way the world IS.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
Note to self: Overthrow government of magical Britain at earliest convenience.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
I'm not a psychopath, I'm just very creative.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
There is never an idea so true that it's wrong to criticize any argument that supports it.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
a rationalist isn't ever certain of anything
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
There were mysterious questions, but a mysterious answer was a contradiction in terms.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
If it was a friend, perhaps, you would have felt far more injured by what he said.""If he were a friend, all the more reason to forgive him. — Eliezer Yudkowsky
I'm lazy! I hate work! Hate hard work in all its forms! Clever shortcuts, that's all I'm about!
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
Since the beginningnot one unusual thing
has ever happened. — Eliezer Yudkowsky
Life is mundane, and does not need a weird explanation.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
If science is a religion, it is the religion that heals the sick and reveals the secrets of the stars.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
Singularitarians are the munchkins of the real world. We just ignore all the usual dungeons and head straight for the cycle of infinite wish spells.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
Existential depression has always annoyed me; it is one of the world's most pointless forms of suffering.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
If you know your destination, you are already there.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
I want to carry in my heart forever the key word of the Olympics - 'passion.'
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
I ask the fundamental question of rationality: Why do you believe what you believe? What do you think you know and how do you think you know it?
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
The golden coins might have been his, but they were still stolen - self-stolen? Auto-thieved?
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
There's something in science like the shine of the Patronus Charm, driving back all sorts of darkness and madness ...
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
The people I know who seem to make unusual efforts at rationality, are unusually honest, or, failing that, at least have unusually bad social skills.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
I CAN DO MAGIC! FEAR ME, LAWS OF PHYSICS, I'M COMING TO VIOLATE YOU!
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
Though I have friends aplenty in academia, I don't operate within the academic system myself.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
Emergence is popular because it is the junk food of curiosity. You
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
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
When something is universal enough in our everyday lives, we take it for granted to the point of forgetting it exists.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
What is deadlier than hate, and flows without limit?Indifference. — Eliezer Yudkowsky
Only God can tell a truly plausible lie.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
To worship a sacred mystery was just to worship your own ignorance.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
It was a fractal of ugliness, disgusting at every level of self-similarity.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
belief is only really worthwhile if you could, in principle, be persuaded to believe otherwise. If
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
Reversed stupidity is not intelligence
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
Lonely dissent doesn't feel like going to school dressed in black. It feels like going to school wearing a clown suit.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
The next time, Mr. Potter, that you choose to escalate a contest rather than lose, you may lose all the stakes you place on the table.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
I have no great fondness for the universe, but I do live there
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
Nestled up against the wall, where Professor Quirrell had stumbled, glistened the crushed remains of a beautiful blue beetle.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
But it is cute. It's such a boy thing to do.Drop dead.
Aw, you say the most romantic things. — Eliezer Yudkowsky
If there is no black and white, there is yet lighter and darker, and not all grays are the same.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
He felt wretched at this point, he'd just told off Gandalf essentially, and Dumbledore's kindness was only making him feel worse.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
It was a rare brain that could feel strongly about anything, if it wasn't close in space, close in time, near at hand, within easy reach ...
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
My successes already accomplished have mostly been taking existing science and getting people to apply it in their everyday lives.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
Professor McGonagall, the Headmaster set fire to a chicken!""He wha- — Eliezer Yudkowsky
To figure out a strange plot, look at what happens, then ask who benefits.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky