Remember, if you succeed in everything you try in life, you're living below your full potential and you should take up more difficult or daring things.
Eliezer YudkowskyLonely dissent doesn't feel like going to school dressed in black. It feels like going to school wearing a clown suit.
Eliezer YudkowskyIt is triple ultra forbidden to respond to criticism with violence. There are a very few injunctions in the human art of rationality that have no ifs, ands, buts, or escape clauses. This is one of them. Bad argument gets counterargument. Does not get bullet. Never. Never ever never for ever.
Eliezer YudkowskyTo confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.
Eliezer Yudkowsky