Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Eliezer Yudkowsky

Quote by Eliezer Yudkowsky

“Because the way people are built, Hermione, the way people are built to feel inside -" Harry put a hand over his own heart, in the anatomically correct position, then paused and moved his hand up to point toward his head at around the ear level, "- is that they hurt when they see their friends hurting. Someone inside their circle of concern, a member of their own tribe. That feeling has an off-switch, an off-switch labeled 'enemy' or 'foreigner' or sometimes just 'stranger'. That's how people are, if they don't learn otherwise.”

Quote by Eliezer Yudkowsky

Book:Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Create image

Work

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Eliezer Yudkowsky
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

You May Also Like

“In fact, the anti-Muslim stance of much of Hindu nationalism can be construed as partly a displaced hostility against the colonial power which could not be expressed directly because of the new legitimacy created within Hinduism for this power. Such a dynamic would seem to roughly duplicate the displacement of Oedipal hostilities in the authoritarian personality.”

HistoryPsychologyColonialismHindutva
Book:The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism
Create image

“How do you know if your inner voice or sense of guidance is your deeper-self speaking its wisdom, your unconscious childhood programming, or the voice of your Aunt Matilda? Discerning the difference between an automatic response stemming from family beliefs, childhood distortions, or culture, and guidance from our connection with our higher/deeper self, makes life, success, and relationships so much easier.”

PsychologyPsychology Spirituality
Author:Dr. Jennifer Howard "Your Ultimate Life Plan"
Create image

“If you have ever felt slightly nauseous walking through an aged care facility, puckered your face against a smell, observed a grown woman clutching a dolly with desperation, felt a flood of melancholy as death fills your view – then you are in a perfect position to be a supportive psychotherapist for those whose lives are peppered with this everyday.”

PsychologyNon Fiction
Book:Counselling and Psychotherapy with Older People in Care: A Support Guide
Create image

“Notice we said 'It sounds like . . .' and not 'I'm hearing that . . .' That's because the word 'I' gets people's guard up. When you say 'I,' it says you're more interested in yourself than the other person, and it makes you take personal responsibility for the words that follow—and the offense they might cause.”

PsychologyNegotiation
Book:Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
Create image

“Psychologist: "This, ah, is a new sort of, ah, psychopathology that we're only now beginning to, ah, understand. These, ah, super-serial killers have no, ah, 'type' but, ah, rather consider everyone to be their 'type.'" Gramma: "Did you hear that? Your daddy's a superhero!”

PsychologyDementiaSerial Killers
Book:I Hunt Killers - Free Preview (The First 10 Chapters): with Bonus Prequel Short Story "Career Day"
Create image

“Dr. Talbon was struck by another very important thing. It all hung together. The stories Cheryl told — even though it was upsetting to think people could do stuff like that — they were not disjointed They were not repetitive in terms of "I've heard this before". It was not just she'd someone trying consciously or unconsciously to get attention. really processed them out and was done with them. She didn't come up with them again [after telling the story once and dealing with it]. Once it was done, it was done. And I think that was probably the biggest factor for me in her believability. I got no sense that she was using these stories to make herself a really interesting person to me so I'd really want to work with her, or something. Or that she was just living in this stuff like it was her life. Once she dealt with it and processed it, it was gone. We just went on to other things. 'Throughout the whole thing, emotionally Cheryl was getting her life together. Parts of her were integrating where she could say,"I have a sense that some particular alter has folded in with some basic alter", and she didn't bring it up again. She didn't say that this alter has reappeared to cause more problems. That just didn't happen. The therapist had learned from training and experience that when real integration occurs, it is permanent and the patient moves on.”

GovernmentAttentionPowerPsychologyMilitaryTrainingVictimMental HealthPatientSoldierTraumaMental IllnessTherapyControlAccountabilitySurvivorIntegrationSpyDissociative Identity DisorderPsychologistDisbeliefParanoiaDissociationMind ControlMultiple Personality DisorderIncestDissociativeAssassinSplit PersonalityAlterTherapistPilotMkultraAttention SeekingPsychological ProblemsAlter PersonalityHelicopterExtreme AbuseSuper Soldier
Book:Secret Weapons: How Two Sisters Were Brainwashed to Kill for Their Country
Create image