There were mysterious questions, but a mysterious answer was a contradiction in terms..

If you handed [character] a glass that was 90% full, he'd tell you that the 10% empty part proved that no one really cared about water..

Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you….

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..

Between hindsight bias, fake causality, positive bias, anchoring/priming, et cetera et cetera, and above all the dreaded confirmation bias, once an i….

Litmus test: If you can't describe Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage and explain why people find it counterintuitive, you don't know enough abou….

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 no….

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

Remember, if you succeed in everything you try in life, you're living below your full potential and you should take up more difficult or daring thing….

By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it..

To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty..

I ask the fundamental question of rationality: Why do you believe what you believe? What do you think you know and how do you think you know it?.

When you are older, you will learn that the first and foremost thing which any ordinary person does is nothing..

- Every time someone cries out in prayer and I can't answer, I feel guilty about not being God. - That doesn't sound good. - I understand that I have….

Moore's Law of Mad Science: Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point..

Do not flinch from experiences that might destroy your beliefs. The thought you cannot think controls you more than thoughts you speak aloud. Submit ….

Through rationality we shall become awesome, and invent and test systematic methods for making people awesome, and plot to optimize everything in sig….

You will find ambiguity a great ally on your road to power. Give a sign of Slytherin on one day, and contradict it with a sign of Gryffindor the next….

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 ….

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

I don't want to rule the universe. I just think it could be more sensibly organised..