Quotes by Eliezer Yudkowsky

About Eliezer Yudkowsky:

Eliezer Shlomo Yudkowsky is an American writer, blogger, and advocate for friendly artificial intelligence.
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My parents were early adopters, and I've been online since a rather young age. You should regard anything from 2001 or earlier as having been written by a different person who also happens to be named 'Eliezer Yudkowsky.' I do not share his opinions.

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What people really believe doesn't feel like a BELIEF, it feels like the way the world IS.

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I only want power so I can get books.

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I've lived the lives of all the characters in all my books, and all their mighty wisdom thunders in my head.

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Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkness and force it to face them.

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Not every change is an improvement but every improvement is a change; you can't do anything BETTER unless you can manage to do it DIFFERENTLY, you've got to let yourself do better than other people!

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Trying and getting hurt can't possibly be worse for you than being... stuck.

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And someday when the descendants of humanity have spread from star to star they won’t tell the children about the history of Ancient Earth until they’re old enough to bear it and when they learn they’ll weep to hear that such a thing as Death h...

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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 l...

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Every mystery ever solved had been a puzzle from the dawn of the human species right up until someone solved it.

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You can only arrive at mastery by practicing the techniques you have learned, facing challenges and apprehending them, using to the fullest the tools you have been taught, until they shatter in your hands and you are left in the midst of wreckage abs...

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And then Harry Potter had launched in to a speech that was inspiring, yet vague. A speech to the effect that Fred and George and Lee had tremendous potential if they could just learn to be weirder. To make people's live surreal, instead of just surpr...

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But it is cute. It's such a boy thing to do. Drop dead. Aw, you say the most romantic things.

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Without thinking about it at all, Harry stepped in front of Hermione. There was an intake of breath from behind him, and then a moment later Hermione brushed past and stepped in front of him. "Run, Harry!" she said. "Boys shouldn't have to be in dang...

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I'm lazy! I hate work! Hate hard work in all its forms! Clever shortcuts, that's all I'm about!

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Someday," said the Boy-Who-Lived, "when the distant descendants of Homo sapiens are looking back over the history of the galaxy and wondering how it all went so wrong, they will conclude that the original mistake was when someone taught Hermione Gran...

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Then you get the wrong answer and you can't go to the Moon that way! Nature isn't a person, you can't trick them into believing something else, if you try to tell the Moon it's made of cheese you can argue for days and it won't change the Moon! What ...

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Sometimes Harry thought the deepest split in his personality wasn't anything to do with his dark side; rather it was the divide between the altruistic and forgiving Abstract Reasoning Harry, versus the frustrated and angry Harry In The Moment.

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In a moral dilemma where you lost something either way, making the choice would feel bad either way, so you could temporarily save yourself a little mental pain by refusing to decide. At the cost of not being able to plan anything in advance, and at ...

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Like that's the only reason anyone would ever buy a first-aid kit? Don't take this the wrong way, Professor McGonagall, but what sort of crazy children are you used to dealing with?" "Gryffindors," spat Professor McGonagall, the word carrying a freig...

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Author Bio

  • NameEliezer Yudkowsky
  • DescriptionAmerican blogger, writer, and artificial intelligence researcher
  • BornSeptember 11, 1979
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionArtificial Intelligence Researcher; Blogger; Writer