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Do not flinch from experiences that might destroy your beliefs. The thought you cannot think controls you more than thoughts you speak aloud. Submit yourself to ordeals and test yourself in fire. Relinquish the emotion which rests upon a mistaken belief, and seek to feel fully that emotion which fits the facts.

~Eliezer Yudkowsky

Topics: Aloud Belief Beliefs Cannot Controls Destroy Emotion Experiences Facts Feel Fire Fits Fully Might Mistaken More Relinquish Rests Seek Speak Submit Test Than Think Thought Thoughts Which You Your Yourself

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You cannot 'rationalize' what is not rational to begin with - as if lying were called 'truthization.' There is no way to obtain more truth for a proposition by bribery, flattery, or the most passionate argument - you can make more people believe the proposition, but you cannot make it more true.

~Eliezer Yudkowsky

Topics: Argument Begin Believe Bribery Cannot Flattery Lying Make More More People Most Obtain Passionate People Proposition Rational Rationalize True Truth Way Were You

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Intelligence is the source of technology. If we can use technology to improve intelligence, that closes the loop and potentially creates a positive feedback cycle.

~Eliezer Yudkowsky

Topics: Closes Creates Cycle Feedback Improve Intelligence Loop Positive Positive Feedback Potentially Source Technology Use

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My successes already accomplished have mostly been taking existing science and getting people to apply it in their everyday lives.

~Eliezer Yudkowsky

Topics: Accomplished Apply Been Everyday Existing Getting Lives Mostly People Science Successes Taking

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If our extinction proceeds slowly enough to allow a moment of horrified realization, the doers of the deed will likely be quite taken aback on realizing that they have actually destroyed the world. Therefore I suggest that if the Earth is destroyed, it will probably be by mistake.

~Eliezer Yudkowsky

Topics: Actually Allow Deed Destroyed Doers Earth Enough Extinction Horrified Likely Mistake Moment Our Proceeds Quite Realization Realizing Slowly Suggest Taken Therefore Will World

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The systematic experimental study of reproducible errors of human reasoning, and what these errors reveal about underlying mental processes, is known as the heuristics and biases program in cognitive psychology. This program has made discoveries highly relevant to assessors of global catastrophic risks.

~Eliezer Yudkowsky

Topics: About Biases Catastrophic Cognitive Discoveries Errors Experimental Global Highly Human Known Made Mental Processes Program Psychology Reasoning Relevant Reveal Risks Study Systematic Underlying

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The obvious choice isn't always the best choice, but sometimes, by golly, it is. I don't stop looking as soon I find an obvious answer, but if I go on looking, and the obvious-seeming answer still seems obvious, I don't feel guilty about keeping it.

~Eliezer Yudkowsky

Topics: About Always Answer Best Choice Feel Find Go Guilty Keeping Looking Obvious Seems Sometimes Soon Still Stop

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A scientist worthy of a lab coat should be able to make original discoveries while wearing a clown suit, or give a lecture in a high squeaky voice from inhaling helium. It is written nowhere in the math of probability theory that one may have no fun.

~Eliezer Yudkowsky

Topics: Able Clown Coat Discoveries Fun Give Helium High Lab Lecture Make Math May No Fun Nowhere Original Probability Scientist Should Suit Theory Voice Wearing While Worthy Written

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The media thinks that only the cutting edge of science, the very latest controversies, are worth reporting on. How often do you see headlines like 'General Relativity still governing planetary orbits' or 'Phlogiston theory remains false'? By the time anything is solid science, it is no longer a breaking headline.

~Eliezer Yudkowsky

Topics: Anything Breaking By The Time Controversies Cutting Cutting Edge Edge False General Governing Headline Headlines How Latest Like Longer Media Often Only Planetary Relativity Remains Reporting Science See Solid Still Theory Thinks Time Very Worth You

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Textbook science is beautiful! Textbook science is comprehensible, unlike mere fascinating words that can never be truly beautiful. Elementary science textbooks describe simple theories, and simplicity is the core of scientific beauty. Fascinating words have no power, nor yet any meaning, without the math.

~Eliezer Yudkowsky

Topics: Any Beautiful Beauty Comprehensible Core Describe Elementary Fascinating Math Meaning Mere Never Nor Power Science Scientific Simple Simplicity Textbook Textbooks Theories Truly Unlike Without Words

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: September 11th, 1979

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