If cryonics were a scam it would have far better marketing and be far more popular.

I don't want to rule the universe. I just think it could be more sensibly organised.

If the iron is hot, I desire to believe it is hot, and if it is cool, I desire to believe it is cool.

Part of the rationalist ethos is binding yourself emotionally to an absolutely lawful reductionistic universe - a universe containing no ontologically basic mental things such as souls or magic and pouring all your hope and all your care into that merely real universe and its possibilities, without disappointment.

World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation.

To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.

If 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.