Singularitarians are the munchkins of the real world. We just ignore all the usual dungeons and head straight for the cycle of infinite wish spells.

You couldn't changed history. But you could get it right to start with. Do something differently the FIRST time around. This whole business with seeking Slytherin's secrets... seemed an awful lot like the sort of thing where, years later, you would look back and say, 'And THAT was where it all started to go wrong.' And he would wish desperately for the ability to fall back through time and make a different choice. Wish granted. Now what?

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

Every mystery ever solved had been a puzzle from the dawn of the human species right up until someone solved it.

Rationality is the master lifehack which distinguishes which other lifehacks to use.

If you don’t sign up your kids for cryonics then you are a lousy parent.

I am tempted to say that a doctorate in AI would be negatively useful, but I am not one to hold someone’s reckless youth against them – just because you acquired a doctorate in AI doesn’t mean you should be permanently disqualified.