Eliezer Yudkowsky - Rationality Quotes

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

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The people I know who seem to make unusual efforts at rationality, are unusually honest, or, failing that, at least have unusually bad social skills.

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I have sometimes thought that all professional lectures on rationality should be delivered while wearing a clown suit, to prevent the audience from confusing seriousness with solemnity.

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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?

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Through rationality we shall become awesome, and invent and test systematic methods for making people awesome, and plot to optimize everything in sight, and the more fun we have the more people will want to join us.

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