Eliezer Yudkowsky
Eliezer Yudkowsky is an American writer and researcher specializing in artificial intelligence and rationality. He co-founded the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, focusing on ensuring the safe development of AI. Yudkowsky is renowned for his work in the "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality" fanfiction, and his contributions to the field of cognitive science and decision theory, particularly through the popular online community, LessWrong.
Book summaries for books written by Eliezer Yudkowsky
Quotes
The difference between science and playing with Legos is that you have to follow the instructions when you're working with Legos.
The world isn't the way the world is, it's just the way the world is.
Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
Humans don't think with their heads, they think with their beliefs.
It's not enough to know what to think, you have to know how to think.
In every moment of choice, you create a new future.
You don't have to be the person you were yesterday. You can choose to be someone different today.
Sometimes the most important lessons are the ones you learn outside the classroom.
The true measure of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
The world doesn't make sense, so we have to make sense of the world.
Don't let what you can't do stop you from doing what you can.
The future is not something to be feared, it is something to be created.