Eliezer Yudkowsky Quote

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 them as separate individuals, and let them argue it out inside my head. So far the main persistent ones are my Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, Gryffindor, and Slytherin sides, my Inner Critic, and my simulated copies of you, Neville, Draco, Professor McGonagall, Professor Flitwick, Professor Quirrell, Dad, Mum, Richard Feynman, and Douglas Hofstadter.Hermione considered trying this before her Common Sense warned that it might be a dangerous sort of thing to pretend. There's a copy of me inside your head?Of course there is! Harry said. The boy suddenly looked a bit more vulnerable. You mean there isn't a copy of me living in your head?There was, she realized; and not only that, it talked in Harry's exact voice.

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 them as separate individuals, and let them argue it out inside my head. So far the main persistent ones are my Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, Gryffindor, and Slytherin sides, my Inner Critic, and my simulated copies of you, Neville, Draco, Professor McGonagall, Professor Flitwick, Professor Quirrell, Dad, Mum, Richard Feynman, and Douglas Hofstadter.Hermione considered trying this before her Common Sense warned that it might be a dangerous sort of thing to pretend. There's a copy of me inside your head?Of course there is! Harry said. The boy suddenly looked a bit more vulnerable. You mean there isn't a copy of me living in your head?There was, she realized; and not only that, it talked in Harry's exact voice.

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About Eliezer Yudkowsky

Eliezer S. Yudkowsky ( EH-lee-EH-zər YUD-KOW-skee; born September 11, 1979) is an American artificial intelligence researcher and writer on decision theory and ethics, best known for popularizing ideas related to friendly artificial intelligence, including the idea that there might not be a "fire alarm" for AI. He is the founder of and a research fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), a private research nonprofit based in Berkeley, California. His work on the prospect of a runaway intelligence explosion influenced philosopher Nick Bostrom's 2014 book Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies.