Let the winds of evidence blow you about as though you are a leaf, with no direction of your own. Beware lest you fight a rearguard retreat against the evidence, grudgingly conceding each foot of ground only when forced, feeling cheated. Surrender to the truth as quickly as you can.
Eliezer YudkowskyI see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit in their own destruction.
Eliezer YudkowskyBetween hindsight bias, fake causality, positive bias, anchoring/priming, et cetera et cetera, and above all the dreaded confirmation bias, once an idea gets into your head, it's probably going to stay there.
Eliezer YudkowskyIf cryonics were a scam it would have far better marketing and be far more popular.
Eliezer Yudkowsky