I only want power so I can get books.

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.

When you are older, you will learn that the first and foremost thing which any ordinary person does is nothing.

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.

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

I ask the fundamental question of rationality: Why do you believe what you believe? What do you think you know and how do you think you know it?

I only want power so I can get books.