Sam #Altman said in February 02023: “eliezer has IMO done more to accelerate AGI than anyone else.
certainly he got many of us interested in AGI, helped deepmind get funded at a time when AGI was extremely outside the overton window, was critical in the decision to start openai, etc.
it is possible at some point he will deserve the nobel peace prize for this--I continue to think short timelines and slow takeoff is likely the safest quadrant of the short/long timelines and slow/fast takeoff matrix” #AI #history #Eliezer #OpenAI
on 02026-09-21#Eliezer Yudkowsky on his process of writing his recruitment tract “#Harry-Potter and the Methods of Rationality”
on 02026-09-01Chapter 39 of #Eliezer Yudkowsky’s recruitment tract “#Harry-Potter and the Methods of Rationality” ends with a quote that many of his followers have found especially inspirational, which is about #nihilism:
“There is no justice in the laws of Nature, Headmaster, no term for fairness in the equations of motion. The universe is neither evil, nor good, it simply does not care. The stars don’t care, or the Sun, or the sky. But they don’t have to! We care! There is light in the world, and it is us!”
Consequently Lighthaven’s Wi-Fi currently has the password “wearethelight”, and one of Mox's blackboards currently bears a joking graffito saying, “Labubu is the darkness”. #tourism
on 02026-06-17#Eliezer’s ethical justification today for the state monopoly on violence, rejecting “outbursts of individual violence” (like the Molotov cocktail attack the other day) as a solution to #AI risk. “How certain do you have to be that your child has terminal cancer, before you start killing puppies? 10% sure? 50% sure? 99.9%?” Apparently you can tweet an “Article” like this if you “upgrade to Premium”.
on 02026-04-13WP article on #Eliezer’s #fiction #Harry-Potter and the Methods of Rationality
on 02026-04-09the original hosting of #Eliezer’s #fiction #Harry-Potter and the Methods of Rationality
on 02026-04-09original URL for #Eliezer’s #fiction about the baby-eaters
on 02026-04-08#Eliezer fiction about the Bayesian initiation ceremony
on 02025-10-08#Eliezer’s short story “That Alien Message” providing a convincing argument that humans are cognitively limited, not data-limited, through the device of a fictional world where people think faster.
on 02025-10-08another review of #Eliezer’s current book #toread
on 02025-10-02#Eliezer’s older book, originally a bunch of OvercomingBias/LessWrong posts
on 02025-10-02#Eliezer’s 02007 paean to the power of intelligence, #CC BY-ND
on 02025-09-13another review of #Eliezer’s #IABIED, mostly skewering its dumber critics. #futurism
on 02025-09-12surprisingly sympathetic review of #Eliezer’s new book, “If anyone builds it, everyone dies” #IABIED #futurism
on 02025-09-12#Eliezer’s less straight rebuttal to Chalmers’s #p-zombies argument. #humor
on 02025-08-12#Eliezer’s longish straight rebuttal to Chalmers’s #p-zombies argument
on 02025-08-12#Eliezer on the kinds of cognitive errors that lead to people arguing about whether trees falling in the forest make a sound #toread
on 02025-07-23