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

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

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

- Eliezer Yudkowsky

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

- Eliezer Yudkowsky

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

- 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

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

- 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.

- 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…

- Eliezer Yudkowsky