These two books are actually parts one and two of a six-part collection called Rationality: From AI to Zombies, sourced from Yudkowsky’s blog posts from the site LessWrong.com over the last decade.
There’s the instant, unconscious, automatic thinking and then there’s the slower, conscious, rational, deliberate thinking.
Therefore, to be furious and enraged and bitter that people don’t get all of who we are is a really a cruel piece of immaturity.
There were three reasons why we survived: We had no money, we had no technology, and we had no plan. Every dollar, we used very carefully.
There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do. —BILL WATTERSON,
There is no way to happiness—happiness is the way. –THICH NHAT HANH
The worst that could happen wasn’t crashing and burning, it was accepting terminal boredom as a tolerable status quo. Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract failure.
The vision is really about empowering workers, giving them all the information about what’s going on so they can do a lot more than they’ve done in the past. —BILL GATES, cofounder of Microsoft, riche...
The top 1% often succeed despite how they train, not because of it. Superior genetics, or a luxurious full-time schedule, make up for a lot.
The three of us are strong-willed individuals with distinct preferences, and the Eating Out Jar came out of a struggle. Each time we talked about going out to eat, we would spend so much energy bicker...
The single book that has influenced me most is probably the last book in the world that anybody is gonna want to read: Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War. This book is dense, difficult, long...
The second thing is, when you are trying to go 10 times bigger, you have to start with a clean sheet of paper, and you approach the problem completely differently. I’ll give you my favorite example: T...
The quality of your questions determines the quality of your life.
The player of the inner game comes to value the art of relaxed concentration above all other skills; he discovers the true basis for self-confidence; and he learns that the secret to winning any game...
The perfect day is caffeine for 10 hours, alcohol for 4. It balances everything out perfectly.
The most complicated letters in English, like E and W, have four strokes. Many Japanese characters have more than 15 strokes
The great majority of that which gives you angst never happens, so you must evict it. Don’t let it live rent-free in your brain.
The golden years become lower-middle-class life revisited. That's a bittersweet ending.
The goal wasn’t specific enough. I hadn’t defined alternate activities that would replace the initial workload. Therefore, I just continued working, even though there was no financial need. I needed t...
The future is here. It’s just not widely distributed yet. —WILLIAM GIBSON,