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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!”
Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
“I only want power so I can get books.”
Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
“World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation.”
Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
“You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.”
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“I don't want to rule the universe. I just think it could be more sensibly organised.”
Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
“Why does any kind of cynicism appeal to people? Because it seems like a mark of maturity, of sophistication, like you’ve seen everything and know better. Or because putting something down feels like pushing yourself up.”
Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
“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, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
“And someday when the descendants of humanity have spread from star to star they won’t tell the children about the history of Ancient Earth until they’re old enough to bear it and when they learn they’ll weep to hear that such a thing as Death had ever once existed”
Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
tags: death
“Not every change is an improvement but every improvement is a change; you can't do anything BETTER unless you can manage to do it DIFFERENTLY, you've got to let yourself do better than other people!”
Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
“I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit in their own destruction.”
Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
“Trying and getting hurt can't possibly be worse for you than being... stuck.”
Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
“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 have zero knowledge.”
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“When you are older, you will learn that the first and foremost thing which any ordinary person does is nothing.”
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“To worship a sacred mystery was just to worship your own ignorance.”
Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
“Like that's the only reason anyone would ever buy a first-aid kit? Don't take this the wrong way, Professor McGonagall, but what sort of crazy children are you used to dealing with?"

"Gryffindors," spat Professor McGonagall, the word carrying a freight of bitterness and despair that fell like an eternal curse on all youthful heroism and high spirits.”
Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
“I'm lazy! I hate work! Hate hard work in all its forms! Clever shortcuts, that's all I'm about!”
Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
“By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.”
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“I'm wondering if there's a spell to make lightning flash in the background whenever I make an ominous resolution.”
Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
“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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“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!”
Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
“There is light in the world, and it is us!”
Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
“Every mystery ever solved had been a puzzle from the dawn of the human species right up until someone solved it.”
Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
“What people really believe doesn't feel like a BELIEF, it feels like the way the world IS.”
Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
“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?”
Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
“It's a most peculiar psychology—this business of 'Science is based on faith too, so there!' Typically this is said by people who claim that faith is a good thing. Then why do they say 'Science is based on faith too!' in that angry-triumphal tone, rather than as a compliment? And a rather dangerous compliment to give, one would think, from their perspective. If science is based on 'faith', then science is of the same kind as religion—directly comparable. If science is a religion, it is the religion that heals the sick and reveals the secrets of the stars. It would make sense to say, 'The priests of science can blatantly, publicly, verifiably walk on the Moon as a faith-based miracle, and your priests' faith can't do the same.' Are you sure you wish to go there, oh faithist? Perhaps, on further reflection, you would prefer to retract this whole business of 'Science is a religion too!”
Eliezer Yudkowsky, The Less Wrong Sequences
“I CAN DO MAGIC! FEAR ME, LAWS OF PHYSICS, I'M COMING TO VIOLATE YOU!”
Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
“In what weird alternative universe would that girl NOT be Sorted into Ravenclaw? If Hermione Granger didn't go to Ravenclaw then there was no good reason for Ravenclaw House to exist.”
Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
“- With respect, Professor McGonagall, I'm not quite sure you understand what I'm trying to do here.
- With respect, Mr. Potter, I'm quite sure I don't. Unless - this is a guess, mind - you're trying to take over the world?
- No! I mean yes - well, NO!
- I think i should perhaps be alarmed that you have trouble answering the question.”
Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
“I have no great fondness for the universe, but I do live there”
Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
“When you walk past a bookshop you haven't visited before, you have to go in and look around. That's the family rule.”
Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

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