I'm wondering if there's a spell to make lightning flash in the background whenever I make an ominous resolution.
Eliezer YudkowskyIf people got hit on the head by a baseball bat every week, pretty soon they would invent reasons why getting hit on the head with a baseball bat was a good thing.
Eliezer YudkowskyThe human brain cannot release enough neurotransmitters to feel emotion a thousand times as strong as the grief of one funeral. A prospective risk going from 10,000,000 deaths to 100,000,000 deaths does not multiply by ten the strength of our determination to stop it. It adds one more zero on paper for our eyes to glaze over.
Eliezer YudkowskyThere were mysterious questions, but a mysterious answer was a contradiction in terms.
Eliezer Yudkowsky