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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.

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Eliezer Yudkowsky
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: September 11
Artificial Intelligence Researcher
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Computer Scientist
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Chicago
Illinois
Eliezer Shlomo Yudkowsky
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There is light in the world, and it is us!
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Every mystery ever solved had been a puzzle from the dawn of the human species right up until someone solved it.
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After all, if you had the complete decision process, you could run it as an AI, and I'd be coding it up right now.
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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.
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I'm lazy! I hate work! Hate hard work in all its forms! Clever shortcuts, that's all I'm about!
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Lonely dissent doesn't feel like going to school dressed in black. It feels like going to school wearing a clown suit.
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Our coherent extrapolated volition is our wish if we knew more, thought faster, were more the people we wished we were, had grown up farther together where the extrapolation converges rather than diverges, where our wishes cohere rather than interfere extrapolated as we wish that extrapolated, interpreted as we wish that interpreted.
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Part of the rationalist ethos is binding yourself emotionally to an absolutely lawful reductionistic universe - a universe containing no ontologically basic mental things such as souls or magic and pouring all your hope and all your care into that merely real universe and its possibilities, without disappointment.
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If the iron is hot, I desire to believe it is hot, and if it is cool, I desire to believe it is cool.
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If you don’t sign up your kids for cryonics then you are a lousy parent.
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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!
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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 things.
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I am tempted to say that a doctorate in AI would be negatively useful, but I am not one to hold someone’s reckless youth against them – just because you acquired a doctorate in AI doesn’t mean you should be permanently disqualified.
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Reality has been around since long before you showed up. Don't go calling it nasty names like 'bizarre' or 'incredible'. The universe was propagating complex amplitudes through configuration space for ten billion years before life ever emerged on Earth. Quantum physics is not 'weird'. You are weird.
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Boys, said Hermione Granger, should not be allowed to love girls without asking them first! This is true in a number of ways and especially when it comes to gluing people to the ceiling!
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There were mysterious questions, but a mysterious answer was a contradiction in terms.
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I am a full-time Research Fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, a small 501(c)(3) public charity supported primarily by individual donations.
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If cryonics were a scam it would have far better marketing and be far more popular.
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By and large, the answer to the question How do large institutions survive? is They don't! The vast majority of large modern-day institutions - some of them extremely vital to the functioning of our complex civilization - simply fail to exist in the first place.
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What people really believe doesn't feel like a BELIEF, it feels like the way the world IS.
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