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“Lonely dissent doesn't feel like going to school dressed in black. It feels like going to school wearing a clown suit.”

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Eliezer Yudkowsky

Eliezer Yudkowsky is a writer known for his contributions to the fields of artificial intelligence and cognitive science, particularly in the areas of reinforcement learning and rationalist philosophy. more

“The human brain cannot release enough neurotransmitters to feel emotion a thousand times as strong as the grief of one funeral. A prospective risk going from 10,000,000 deaths to 100,000,000 deaths does not multiply by ten the strength of our determination to stop it. It adds one more zero on paper for our eyes to glaze over.”

Feels Humans Doe Enough Eye Strong Grief Emotion Brain Risk Thousand Ten Paper Determination Add Release Zero Funeral Human Brain Neurotransmitters

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“If you've been cryocrastinating, putting off signing up for cryonics "until later", don't think that you've "gotten away with it so far". Many worlds, remember? There are branched versions of you that are dying of cancer, and not signed up for cryonics, and it's too late for them to get life insurance.”

Ifs Thinking World Remember Dying Late Cancer Versions Too Late Signing Signing Up

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“Physiologically adult humans are not meant to spend an additional 10 years in a school system; their brains map that onto "I have been assigned low tribal status". And so, of course, they plot rebellion - accuse the existing tribal overlords of corruption plot, perhaps to split off their own little tribe in the savanna, not realizing that this is impossible in the Modern World.”

World Years Humans Littles Has Beens School Courses Realizing Brain Impossible Modern Lows Adults Corruption Plot Maps Rebellion Splits Tribes Modern World School System Savanna

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“Part of the rationalist ethos is binding yourself emotionally to an absolutely lawful reductionistic universe - a universe containing no ontologically basic mental things such as souls or magic and pouring all your hope and all your care into that merely real universe and its possibilities, without disappointment.”

Real Soul Care Universe Magic Possibility Disappointment Pouring Binding Containing Ethos

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“If cryonics were a scam it would have far better marketing and be far more popular.”

Ifs Marketing Scams

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“My experience is that journalists report on the nearest-cliche algorithm, which is extremely uninformative because there aren't many cliches, the truth is often quite distant from any cliche, and the only thing you can infer about the actual event was that this was the closest cliche. It is simply not possible to appreciate the sheer awfulness of mainstream media reporting until someone has actually reported on you. It is so much worse than you think.”

Thinking Media Events Truth Is Appreciate Journalist Reports Mainstream Closest Sheer Cliche Algorithms Mainstream Media Awfulness

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“By and large, the answer to the question "How do large institutions survive?" is "They don't!" The vast majority of large modern-day institutions - some of them extremely vital to the functioning of our complex civilization - simply fail to exist in the first place.”

Firsts Answers Failing Modern Civilization Institutions Majority Complexes Modern Day

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“If I'm teaching deep things, then I view it as important to make people feel like they're learning deep things, because otherwise, they will still have a hole in their mind for "deep truths" that needs filling, and they will go off and fill their heads with complete nonsense that has been written in a more satisfying style.”

People Ifs Needs Feels Mind Has Beens Stills Important Views Written Teaching Style Holes Nonsense Satisfying Filling Deep Things

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“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.”

Ability Situation Skills Resources Luck Distance Landscape Underestimate Interiors Temperament Unspoken Unnoticed

Author: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.”

People Knows Seems Social Effort Failing Honest Skills Unusual Rationality Social Skills

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