“ By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it. Eliezer Yudkowsky
“ 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. Eliezer Yudkowsky
“ 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. Eliezer Yudkowsky
“ When you are older, you will learn that the first and foremost thing which any ordinary person does is nothing. Eliezer Yudkowsky
“ We tend to see individual differences instead of human universals. Thus, when someone says the word 'intelligence,' we think of Einstein instead of humans. Eliezer Yudkowsky
“ Be careful... any time you find yourself defining the "winner" as someone other than the agent who is currently smiling from on top of a giant heap of utility. Eliezer Yudkowsky
“ The purest case of an intelligence explosion would be an Artificial Intelligence rewriting its own source code. The key idea is that if you can improve intelligence even a little, the process accelera… Eliezer Yudkowsky
“ Intelligence is the source of technology. If we can use technology to improve intelligence, that closes the loop and potentially creates a positive feedback cycle. Eliezer Yudkowsky
“ 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. Eliezer Yudkowsky
“ There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. So people say that 'it takes more than intelligence to succeed in human society.'… Eliezer Yudkowsky
“ Textbook science is beautiful! Textbook science is comprehensible, unlike mere fascinating words that can never be truly beautiful. Elementary science textbooks describe simple theories, and simplicit… Eliezer Yudkowsky
“ People form close friendships by knowing private things about each other, and the reason most people don't make close friends is because they're too embarrassed to share anything really important abou… Eliezer Yudkowsky
“ I keep trying to explain to people that the archetype of intelligence is not Dustin Hoffman in 'The Rain Man;' it is a human being, period. It is squishy things that explode in a vacuum, leaving footp… Eliezer Yudkowsky
“ Since the rise of Homo sapiens, human beings have been the smartest minds around. But very shortly - on a historical scale, that is - we can expect technology to break the upper bound on intelligence… Eliezer Yudkowsky
“ Anything that could give rise to smarter-than-human intelligence - in the form of Artificial Intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, or neuroscience-based human intelligence enhancement - wins hands… Eliezer Yudkowsky
“ John Kenneth Galbraith said: Faced with the choice of changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. Eliezer Yudkowsky
“ 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. Eliezer Yudkowsky
“ Is there some amazing rational thing you do when your mind's running in all different directions? she managed.My own approach is usually to identify the different desires, give them names, conceive of… Eliezer Yudkowsky
“ The purpose of a moral philosophy is not to look delightfully strange and counterintuitive or to provide employment to bioethicists. The purpose is to guide our choices toward life, health, beauty, ha… Eliezer Yudkowsky
“ A friend isn't someone you use once and then throw away, a friend is someone you use over and over again. Eliezer Yudkowsky
