Eliezer Shlomo Yudkowsky (b.1979) is an American blogger, writer, and advocate for friendly artificial intelligence. Yudkowsky is a resident of Berkeley, California. Largely self-educated, he co-founded the nonprofit Machine Intelligence Research Institute in 2000 and continues to be employed there as a full-time Research Fellow.
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To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.
—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
Real dissent doesn’t feel like going to school wearing black, but like going to school wearing a clown suit.
—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
Truth is work, people are lazy, for a great many lies you need suppose nothing more.
—Eliezer Yudkowsky
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