Eliezer Yudkowsky made a mistake once—but only so he could calibrate his confidence level.
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Karma: 13,362
Reason as memetic immune disorder
Your inner Google
Self-fulfilling correlations
Even if you have a nail, not all hammers are the same
Have no heroes, and no villains
Humans are utility monsters
Dark Arts 101: Using presuppositions
Things you are supposed to like
Why people want to die
Eliezer and I are now part of the literary canon.
At least, we’re both taught in the English department at Princeton. Anne Jamison’s course, “Fanfiction: Transformative works from Shakespeare to Sherlock”, will cover Eliezer’s Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality on March 2, and one of my short stories, “The Magician and the Detective”, on March 4.
Don’t estimate your creative intelligence by your critical intelligence
What we’re losing
Omega one-boxes against Eliezer Yudkowsky.
If Michelson and Morley had lived A.Y., they would have found that the speed of light was relative to Eliezer Yudkowsky.
Turing machines are not Eliezer-complete.
The fact that the Bible contains errors doesn’t prove there is no God. It just proves that God shouldn’t try to play Eliezer Yudkowsky.
Eliezer Yudkowsky has measure 1.
Eliezer Yudkowsky doesn’t wear glasses to see better. He wears glasses that distort his vision, to avoid violating the uncertainty principle.
If you put Eliezer Yudkowsky in a box, the rest of the universe is in a state of quantum superposition until you open it again.
Eliezer Yudkowsky can prove it’s not butter.
If you say Eliezer Yudkowsky’s name 3 times out loud, it prevents anything magical from happening.