What people really believe doesn't feel like a BELIEF, it feels like the way the world IS.

I 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.

If you want to build a recursively self-improving AI, have it go through a billion sequential self-modifications, become vastly smarter than you, and not die, you've got to work to a pretty precise standard.

Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkness and force it to face them.

Have I ever remarked on how completely ridiculous it is to ask high school students to decide what they want to do with the rest of their lives and give them nearly no support in doing so? Support like, say, spending a day apiece watching twenty different jobs and then another week at their top three choices, with salary charts and projections and probabilities of graduating that subject given their test scores? The more so considering this is a central allocation question for the entire economy?

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

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