Eliezer Yudkowsky Quotes

If you want to maximize your expected utility, you try to save the world and the future of intergalactic civilization instead of donating your money to the society for curing rare diseases and cute puppies.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 11, 1979

Topics

FutureCuteMoneyWorldSocietyYou

Thanks to budget shortfalls and format wars, our traditional media, literature, and arts are perishing faster than ever before. Nothing conceived by the human mind, except Heaven and nuclear winter, is eternal.

Jeffrey Zeldman

WinterMindLiteratureMediaHeaven

Gossiping and squawking for no reason is really pointless.

Jenna Morasca

ReasonPointlessNo ReasonReally

When you are playing somebody who did exist, and there is good source material on them, whether it is a biography or archives or experts, you would be stupid not to delve into them. But there is a point in the process where you leave the books alone, and instead, you focus on the script and creating your version.

Andrew Gower

GoodAloneFocusStupidProcessYou

I'd like to do a television show that is encouraging, useful, and clean, and I'd like to go up against Entertainment Tonight and beat it.

John Tesh

TelevisionGoEntertainmentCleanUp

It's thought that about 96% of us have visual imagery, and there's a very tiny minority in the population, some of whom are normal, some of whom have brain lesions, who cannot produce visual imagery.

Siri Hustvedt

BrainThoughtMinorityNormalUs

Alienation, I suppose, can't be hackneyed because it will always exist.

Mike Birbiglia

WillAlwaysExistBecauseAlienation

Film is endlessly just beyond your reach. I think that's what I love so much about it.

Mike Mills

LoveThinkReachBeyondFilmJust

There's only X amount of time. You can do whatever you want with that time. It's your time.

Lou Reed

TimeYouWantWhateverOnlyYour

You know these love letters mix with whisky, just don't light a match when you kiss me.

Jon Bon Jovi

LoveLightKissMeYouKnow

Religious people are happier.

Deborah Norville

PeopleReligiousHappier

If I'm feeling like rock, we'll do some of that, and if I'm feeling some other way, we might do some of that. So, that's typically how I record and write and play music and anything else.

Chris Stapleton

MusicFeelingPlayRockWayWrite

I'm a trained engineer, so I'm conditioned to come up with a right answer to a difficult question, but when it comes to art, there is no definite answer because it's so subjective.

Sushant Singh Rajput

ArtQuestionDifficultRightUp

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