Eliezer Yudkowsky
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Eliezer Shlomo Yudkowskyis an American artificial intelligence researcher known for popularizing the idea of friendly artificial intelligence. He is a co-founder and research fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, a private research nonprofit based in Berkeley, California...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth11 September 1979
CountryUnited States of America
courage hurt effort
Trying and getting hurt can't possibly be worse for you than being... stuck.
stars law sky
There is no justice in the laws of nature, no term for fairness in the equations of motion. The Universe is neither evil, nor good, it simply does not care. The stars don't care, or the Sun, or the sky. But they don't have to! WE care! There IS light in the world, and it is US!
skills people effort
The people I know who seem to make unusual efforts at rationality, are unusually honest, or, failing that, at least have unusually bad social skills.
marketing scams ifs
If cryonics were a scam it would have far better marketing and be far more popular.
people danger artificial-intelligence
By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.
light world rationality
There is light in the world, and it is us!
ignorance sacred mystery
To worship a sacred mystery was just to worship your own ignorance.
hero names important
Science has heroes, but no gods. The great Names are not our superiors, or even our rivals, they are passed milestones on our road; and the most important milestone is the hero yet to come.
college thinking games
When you think of intelligence, don't think of a college professor; think of human beings as opposed to chimpanzees. If you don't have human intelligence, you're not even in the game.
firsts ordinary doe
When you are older, you will learn that the first and foremost thing which any ordinary person does is nothing.
lying believe people
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.
baseball people reason-why
If people got hit on the head by a baseball bat every week, pretty soon they would invent reasons why getting hit on the head with a baseball bat was a good thing.
hate love-you atoms
The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else.
laughter fun philosophy
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.