Eliezer Yudkowsky Quotes

Sometimes Harry thought the deepest split in his personality wasn't anything to do with his dark side; rather it was the divide between the altruistic and forgiving Abstract Reasoning Harry, versus the frustrated and angry Harry In The Moment.

In a moral dilemma where you lost something either way, making the choice would feel bad either way, so you could temporarily save yourself a little mental pain by refusing to decide. At the cost of not being able to plan anything in advance, and at the cost of incurring a huge bias toward inaction or waiting until too late...

I'm lazy! I hate work! Hate hard work in all its forms! Clever shortcuts, that's all I'm about!

To worship a sacred mystery was just to worship your own ignorance.

A friend isn't someone you use once and then throw away, a friend is someone you use over and over again.

For an instant Harry imagined... Just for an instant, before his imagination blew a fuse and called an emergency shut down and told him never to imagine that again.

What people really believe doesn't feel like a BELIEF, it feels like the way the world IS.

I only want power so I can get books.