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When something is universal enough in our everyday lives, we take it for granted to the point of forgetting it exists.

~Eliezer Yudkowsky

Topics: Enough Everyday Exists Forgetting Granted Lives Our Point Something Take Universal

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An anthropologist will not excitedly report of a newly discovered tribe: 'They eat food! They breathe air! They use tools! They tell each other stories!' We humans forget how alike we are, living in a world that only reminds us of our differences.

~Eliezer Yudkowsky

Topics: Air Alike Anthropologist Breathe Differences Discovered Each Eat Food Forget How Humans Living Newly Only Other Our Reminds Report Stories Tell Tools Tribe Us Use Will World

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We tend to see individual differences instead of human universals. Thus, when someone says the word 'intelligence,' we think of Einstein instead of humans.

~Eliezer Yudkowsky

Topics: Differences Einstein Human Humans Individual Instead Intelligence Says See Someone Tend Think Thus Universal Word

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Since the rise of Homo sapiens, human beings have been the smartest minds around. But very shortly - on a historical scale, that is - we can expect technology to break the upper bound on intelligence that has held for the last few tens of thousands of years.

~Eliezer Yudkowsky

Topics: Around Been Beings Bound Break Expect Few Held Historical Homo Human Human Beings Intelligence Last Minds Rise Scale Since Smartest Technology Tens Tens Of Thousands Thousands Thousands Of Years Upper Very Years

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I am a full-time Research Fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, a small 501(c)(3) public charity supported primarily by individual donations.

~Eliezer Yudkowsky

Topics: Am Charity Donations Fellow Full-Time Individual Institute Intelligence Machine Primarily Public Research Small Supported I Am

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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.

~Eliezer Yudkowsky

Topics: Age Also Anything Been Different Different Person Earlier Early Happens Having His Named Online Opinions Parents Person Rather Regard Share Should Since Were Who Written You Young Young Age

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Though I have friends aplenty in academia, I don't operate within the academic system myself.

~Eliezer Yudkowsky

Topics: Academia Academic Friends Myself Operate System Though Within

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In our skulls, we carry around 3 pounds of slimy, wet, greyish tissue, corrugated like crumpled toilet paper. You wouldn't think, to look at the unappetizing lump, that it was some of the most powerful stuff in the known universe.

~Eliezer Yudkowsky

Topics: Around Carry Known Like Look Lump Most Most Powerful Our Paper Pounds Powerful Some Stuff Think Tissue Toilet Toilet Paper Universe Wet You

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I keep trying to explain to people that the archetype of intelligence is not Dustin Hoffman in 'The Rain Man;' it is a human being, period. It is squishy things that explode in a vacuum, leaving footprints on their moon.

~Eliezer Yudkowsky

Topics: Being Dustin Hoffman Explain Explode Footprints Human Human Being Intelligence Keep Leaving Man Moon People Period Rain Things Trying Vacuum

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The purpose of a moral philosophy is not to look delightfully strange and counterintuitive or to provide employment to bioethicists. The purpose is to guide our choices toward life, health, beauty, happiness, fun, laughter, challenge, and learning.

~Eliezer Yudkowsky

Topics: Beauty Challenge Choices Employment Fun Guide Happiness Health Laughter Learning Life Look Moral Our Philosophy Provide Purpose Strange Toward

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: September 11th, 1979

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