To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.
Eliezer YudkowskyIf cryonics were a scam it would have far better marketing and be far more popular.
Eliezer YudkowskyThe strength of a theory is not what it allows, but what it prohibits; if you can invent an equally persuasive explanation for any outcome, you have zero knowledge.
Eliezer YudkowskyIf I'm teaching deep things, then I view it as important to make people feel like they're learning deep things, because otherwise, they will still have a hole in their mind for "deep truths" that needs filling, and they will go off and fill their heads with complete nonsense that has been written in a more satisfying style.
Eliezer Yudkowsky