Yud­kowsky’s Com­ing of Age

Yudkowsky’s Coming of Age is a series of posts describing Yudkowsky’s coming of age as a rationalist over a rough time period of 2000-2003, with the final catastrophic enlightenment occurring in 2003.

Blog posts

• My Childhood Death Spiral

• My Best and Worst Mistake

• Raised in Technophilia

• A Prodigy of Refutation

• The Sheer Folly of Callow Youth

• That Tiny Note of Discord

• Fighting a Rearguard Action Against the Truth

• My Naturalistic Awakening

• The Level Above Mine

  • Competent Elites

  • Above-Average AI Scientists

• The Magnitude of His Own Folly

  • Beyond the Reach of God

• My Bayesian Enlightenment