“We underestimate the distance between ourselves and others. Not just inferential distance, but distances of temperament and ability, distances of situation and resource, distances of unspoken knowledge and unnoticed skills and luck, distances of interior landscape.” AbilitySituationSkillsResourcesLuckDistanceLandscapeUnderestimateInteriorsTemperamentUnspokenUnnoticed Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky
“Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.” IfsRealityAbilityFictionOutcomesConfusedZeroExplaining Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky
“You couldn't changed history. But you could get it right to start with. Do something differently the FIRST time around. This whole business with seeking Slytherin's secrets... seemed an awful lot like the sort of thing where, years later, you would look back and say, 'And THAT was where it all started to go wrong.' And he would wish desperately for the ability to fall back through time and make a different choice. Wish granted. Now what?” YearsFirstsLooksDifferentWholeChoicesFallWishAbilitySecretChangedFirst TimeSeekingAwfulGrantedFall BackDifferent Choices Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky
“The police officer who puts their life on the line with no superpowers, no X-Ray vision, no super-strength, no ability to fly, and above all no invulnerability to bullets, reveals far greater virtue than Superman - who is only a mere superhero.” LinesAbilityVisionVirtueGreaterPoliceMereOfficersRaysBulletsSuperheroPolice OfficerSuperpowerInvulnerability Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky
