Quotes by Eliezer Yudkowsky

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One of chief pieces of advice I give to aspiring rationalists is "Don't try to be clever." And, "Listen to those quiet, — Eliezer Yudkowsky
By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it. — Eliezer Yudkowsky
Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good a — Eliezer Yudkowsky
People form close friendships by knowing private things about each other, and the reason most people don't make close fr — Eliezer Yudkowsky
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. — Eliezer Yudkowsky
A friend isn't someone you use once and then throw away, a friend is someone you use over and over again. — Eliezer Yudkowsky
Be careful... any time you find yourself defining the "winner" as someone other than the agent who is currently smiling — Eliezer Yudkowsky
Be careful... any time you find yourself defining the "winner" as someone other than the agent who is currently smiling — Eliezer Yudkowsky
When you are older, you will learn that the first and foremost thing which any ordinary person does is nothing. — Eliezer Yudkowsky
Textbook science is beautiful! Textbook science is comprehensible, unlike mere fascinating words that can never be truly — Eliezer Yudkowsky
By far, the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it. — Eliezer Yudkowsky
Anything that could give rise to smarter-than-human intelligence - in the form of Artificial Intelligence, brain-compute — Eliezer Yudkowsky
There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. S — Eliezer Yudkowsky
Intelligence is the source of technology. If we can use technology to improve intelligence, that closes the loop and pot — Eliezer Yudkowsky
The purest case of an intelligence explosion would be an Artificial Intelligence rewriting its own source code. The key — Eliezer Yudkowsky
When you think of intelligence, don't think of a college professor; think of human beings as opposed to chimpanzees. If — Eliezer Yudkowsky
We tend to see individual differences instead of human universals. Thus, when someone says the word 'intelligence,' we t — Eliezer Yudkowsky
Since the rise of Homo sapiens, human beings have been the smartest minds around. But very shortly - on a historical sca — Eliezer Yudkowsky
I am a full-time Research Fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, a small 501(c)(3) public charity suppor — Eliezer Yudkowsky
I keep trying to explain to people that the archetype of intelligence is not Dustin Hoffman in 'The Rain Man;' it is a h — Eliezer Yudkowsky