Eliezer Yudkowsky Quotes

The systematic experimental study of reproducible errors of human reasoning, and what these errors reveal about underlying mental processes, is known as the heuristics and biases program in cognitive psychology. This program has made discoveries highly relevant to assessors of global catastrophic risks.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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Author Biography

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

Topics

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There's no such thing as morality.

Robert M. Pirsig

MoralityThing

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

Simone Weil

FeelPersonNothingUnderstandHuman

You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buying opportunities. You don't want too much complacency because people will be blinded to some risk.

Ron Chernow

GoodFearPeopleComplacencyYou

The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

Confucius

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The most rewarding thing is being on Broadway. I went into Cabaret as a replacement and was really challenged beyond anything I could have imagined.

Brooke Shields

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Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.

Arthur Balfour

NothingMatterMattersThingsMuch

For me, leaving the Marine Corps was more disorienting than returning home.

Phil Klay

HomeMeLeavingReturningMoreThan

I cry all the time.

Paula Radcliffe

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I didn't get paid for performances most of my life. If I did, I would be billionaire now, and I'm not.

Marina Abramovic

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I think that certainly, whenever you have a new band, the first record always has a certain energy to it before you know what you're doing. I think some of the early Sonic Youth stuff was maybe like that.

Kim Gordon

YouthEnergyThinkDoingYouEarly

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.

Horace Walpole

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