All ELIEZER YUDKOWSKY Quotes about “Rationality”

“It is triple ultra forbidden to respond to criticism with violence. There are a very few injunctions in the human art of rationality that have no ifs, ands, buts, or escape clauses. This is one of them. Bad argument gets counterargument. Does not get bullet. Never. Never ever never for ever.”
“There is no justice in the laws of nature, no term for fairness in the equations of motion. The Universe is neither evil, nor good, it simply does not care. The stars don't care, or the Sun, or the sky. But they don't have to! WE care! There IS light in the world, and it is US!”
“To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.”
“The people I know who seem to make unusual efforts at rationality, are unusually honest, or, failing that, at least have unusually bad social skills.”
“Rationality is the master lifehack which distinguishes which other lifehacks to use.”
“Through rationality we shall become awesome, and invent and test systematic methods for making people awesome, and plot to optimize everything in sight, and the more fun we have the more people will want to join us.”
“There is light in the world, and it is us!”
“I ask the fundamental question of rationality: Why do you believe what you believe? What do you think you know and how do you think you know it?”

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