I don't want to rule the universe. I just think it could be more sensibly organised.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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ELIEZER YUDKOWSKY You cannot 'rationalize' what is not rational to begin with - as if lying were called 't...
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ELIEZER YUDKOWSKY I'm lazy! I hate work! Hate hard work in all its forms! Clever shortcuts, that's all I'm about!
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ELIEZER YUDKOWSKY Something, somewhere, somewhen, must have happened differently...
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ELIEZER YUDKOWSKY What people really believe doesn't feel like a BELIEF, it feels like the way the world IS.
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ELIEZER YUDKOWSKY - With respect, Professor McGonagall, I'm not quite sure you understand what I'm trying to do here.<...
ELIEZER YUDKOWSKY There is light in the world, and it is us!
ELIEZER YUDKOWSKY To worship a sacred mystery was just to worship your own ignorance.
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ELIEZER YUDKOWSKY Trying and getting hurt can't possibly be worse for you than being... stuck.
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CAROL VORDERMAN I want to believe that there's more. That we could be more. Hell, we could be heroes.
VICTORIA SCHWAB I think the universe is just so big that there has to be something else out there.
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