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A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance.
~ Eliezer Yudkowsky
Both
Burning
Curiosity
Desire
Feel
Higher
Ignorance
Ignorant
Itch
Know
Pursue
Relinquish
Requires
Solemn
Than
Truth
Vow
You
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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
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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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
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
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Anything that could give rise to smarter-than-human intelligence - in the form of Artificial Intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, or neuroscience-based human intelligence enhancement - wins hands down beyond contest as doing the most to change the world. Nothing else is even in the same league.
~ Eliezer Yudkowsky
Anything
Artificial
Artificial Intelligence
Beyond
Change
Change The World
Contest
Could
Doing
Down
Else
Enhancement
Even
Form
Give
Hands
Human
Human Intelligence
Intelligence
League
Most
Nothing
Rise
Same
Wins
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By far, the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.
~ Eliezer Yudkowsky
Artificial
Artificial Intelligence
Conclude
Danger
Early
Far
Greatest
Greatest Danger
Intelligence
People
Too
Understand
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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
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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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
Am
Charity
Donations
Fellow
Full-Time
I Am
Individual
Institute
Intelligence
Machine
Primarily
Public
Research
Small
Supported
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I don't care where I live, so long as there's a roof to keep the rain off my books, and high-speed Internet access.
~ Eliezer Yudkowsky
Access
Books
Care
don't Care
Internet
Keep
Live
Long
Off
Rain
Roof
Where
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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
Being
Dustin Hoffman
Explain
Explode
Footprints
Human
Human Being
Intelligence
Keep
Leaving
Man
Moon
People
Period
Rain
Things
Trying
Vacuum
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I want to carry in my heart forever the key word of the Olympics - 'passion.'
~ Eliezer Yudkowsky
Carry
Forever
Heart
Key
Olympics
Passion
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Word
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I wouldn't be surprised if tomorrow was the Final Dawn, the last sunrise before the Earth and Sun are reshaped into computing elements.
~ Eliezer Yudkowsky
Before
Computing
Dawn
Earth
Elements
Final
Last
Sun
Sunrise
Surprised
Tomorrow
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If I could create a world where people lived forever, or at the very least a few billion years, I would do so. I don't think humanity will always be stuck in the awkward stage we now occupy, when we are smart enough to create enormous problems for ourselves, but not quite smart enough to solve them.
~ Eliezer Yudkowsky
Always
Awkward
Billion
Could
Create
Enormous
Enough
Few
Forever
Humanity
If I Could
Least
Lived
Now
Occupy
Ourselves
People
Problems
Quite
Smart
Solve
Stage
Stuck
Them
Think
Very
Where
Will
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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
Actually
Allow
Deed
Destroyed
Doers
Earth
Enough
Extinction
Horrified
Likely
Mistake
Moment
Our
Proceeds
Quite
Realization
Realizing
Slowly
Suggest
Taken
Therefore
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If you want to maximize your expected utility, you try to save the world and the future of intergalactic civilization instead of donating your money to the society for curing rare diseases and cute puppies.
~ Eliezer Yudkowsky
Civilization
Curing
Cute
Diseases
Expected
Future
Instead
Maximize
Money
Puppies
Rare
Save
Save The World
Society
Try
Utility
Want
World
You
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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
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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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
Closes
Creates
Cycle
Feedback
Improve
Intelligence
Loop
Positive
Positive Feedback
Potentially
Source
Technology
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Let the winds of evidence blow you about as though you are a leaf, with no direction of your own. Beware lest you fight a rearguard retreat against the evidence, grudgingly conceding each foot of ground only when forced, feeling cheated. Surrender to the truth as quickly as you can.
~ Eliezer Yudkowsky
About
Against
Beware
Blow
Cheated
Direction
Each
Evidence
Feeling
Fight
Foot
Forced
Ground
Leaf
Lest
Only
Own
Quickly
Retreat
Surrender
Though
Truth
Winds
You
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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
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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My successes already accomplished have mostly been taking existing science and getting people to apply it in their everyday lives.
~ Eliezer Yudkowsky
Accomplished
Apply
Been
Everyday
Everyday Lives
Existing
Getting
Lives
Mostly
People
Science
Successes
Taking
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Nothing you'll read as breaking news will ever hold a candle to the sheer beauty of settled science. Textbook science has carefully phrased explanations for new students, math derived step by step, plenty of experiments as illustration, and test problems.
~ Eliezer Yudkowsky
Beauty
Breaking
Candle
Carefully
Derived
Ever
Experiments
Explanations
Hold
Illustration
Math
New
News
Nothing
Plenty
Problems
Read
Science
Settled
Sheer
Step
Students
Test
Textbook
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