Eliezer Yudkowsky

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

“When you think of intelligence, don't think of a college professor; think of human beings as opposed to chimpanzees. If you don't have human intelligence, you're not even in the game.”

“You cannot 'rationalize' what is not rational to begin with - as if lying were called 'truthization.' There is no way to obtain more truth for a proposition by bribery, flattery, or the most passionate argument - you can make more people believe the proposition, but you cannot make it more true.”

“I only want power so I can get books.”