Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Eliezer Yudkowsky (American Scientist)

Eliezer Shlomo Yudkowsky (b.1979) is an American artificial intelligence researcher, writer, and AI safety advocate. He is best known for his work on friendly AI, ensuring advanced systems align with human values. His contributions to rationality and decision theory have influenced discussions on AI alignment and existential risk.

Largely self-taught, Yudkowsky never attended formal higher education. In 2000, he co-founded the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI,) a nonprofit focused on AI safety. His research highlights risks of uncontrolled AI development, stressing careful design and ethical considerations. His ideas appear in AI safety literature, including Nick Bostrom’s Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (2014.)

He has authored influential works such as Creating Friendly AI (2001,) Coherent Extrapolated Volition (2004,) and Timeless Decision Theory (2010.) He also contributed to LessWrong, a blog on rationality and cognitive science. His fan fiction novel, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (2010–15,) applies principles of rational thinking to storytelling.

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Would it be good advice, once copying becomes practical, to make lots of copies when good things happen, and none (or perhaps even killing off your own personal instance) on bad things? Will this change the subjective probability of good events?
—Eliezer Yudkowsky
Topics: Rationality

Real dissent doesn’t feel like going to school wearing black, but like going to school wearing a clown suit.
—Eliezer Yudkowsky

The important graphs are the ones where some things are not connected to some other things. When the unenlightened ones try to be profound, they draw endless verbal comparisons between this topic, and that topic, which is like this, which is like that; until their graph is fully connected and also totally useless.
—Eliezer Yudkowsky

That which can be destroyed by the truth should be. That which the truth nourishes should thrive.
—Eliezer Yudkowsky

Science has heroes, but no gods. The great Names are not our superiors, or even our rivals, they are passed milestones on our road; and the most important milestone is the hero yet to come.
—Eliezer Yudkowsky

Our brains live in a dark, quiet, wet place. That is the reality. It is only by means of our senses that we get the illusion of being out there in the world. In a way, our bodies are a form of telepresence, operated by our brains, huddling safe in their little caves of bone.
—Eliezer Yudkowsky
Topics: Rationality

Truth is work, people are lazy, for a great many lies you need suppose nothing more.
—Eliezer Yudkowsky

To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.
—Eliezer Yudkowsky

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