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.
Between hindsight bias, fake causality, positive bias, anchoring/priming, et cetera et cetera, and above all the dreaded confirmation bias, once an i… - Eliezer Yudkowsky
Between hindsight bias, fake causality, positive bias, anchoring/priming, et cetera et cetera, and above all the dreaded confirmation bias, once an i…
- Eliezer Yudkowsky
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… - Eliezer Yudkowsky
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 were mysterious questions, but a mysterious answer was a contradiction in terms. - Eliezer Yudkowsky
There were mysterious questions, but a mysterious answer was a contradiction in terms.
To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty. - Eliezer Yudkowsky
To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.
By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it. - Eliezer Yudkowsky
By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.
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. - Eliezer Yudkowsky
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.
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… - Eliezer Yudkowsky
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…
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… - Eliezer Yudkowsky
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. - Eliezer Yudkowsky
Trying and getting hurt can't possibly be worse for you than being... stuck.
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