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Your instinctive willingness to believe something will change along with your willingness to afliate with people who are known for believing it—quite apart from whether the belief is actually true. Some people may be reluctant to believe that God does not exist, not because there is evidence that God does exist, but rather because they are reluctant to afliate with Richard Dawkins or those darned “strident” atheists who go around publicly saying “God does not exist.”
Rationality: From AI to Zombies
Eliezer Yudkowsky
World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation.
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Eliezer Yudkowsky
When we are young we believe that we know everything, and so we believe that if we see no explanation for something, then no explanation exists. When we are older we realise that the whole universe works by a rhythm and a reason, even if we ourselves do not know it. It is only our own ignorance which appears to us as insanity.
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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