Eliezer Yudkowsky Quotes

We underestimate the distance between ourselves and others. Not just inferential distance, but distances of temperament and ability, distances of situation and resource, distances of unspoken knowledge and unnoticed skills and luck, distances of interior landscape.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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• Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Service
  • Intelligent
  • Choice

• If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Unique
  • Gender
  • Spectrum

• A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Good
  • Politics
  • Journalism

• Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Up
  • Family
  • Small

• I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Want
  • Body

• The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Up
  • World
  • Different

• Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.

  

  Cameron Bright
  • Sweet
  • Breathe
  • Underwater

• I'm a vocabulary nerd.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Nerd
  • Vocabulary

• I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Purpose
  • Step

• Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Music
  • Always
  • Face

• You always have to think in a new modern way, and you always have to push yourself in fashion because it's a big treadmill. You can't really get off it. You just have to move a little faster.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Think
  • Fashion
  • Yourself

• I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Baby

• Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

  

  Nadia Boulanger
  • Love
  • Giving
  • Best

• My friends started having children after college, while I was pursuing this crazy acting career and living hand to mouth. Plus, all my boyfriends were artists struggling to make a living. Having kids didn't make any sense - why would I take on more of a financial burden when I couldn't even afford a dog?

  

  Edie Falco
  • Children
  • Why
  • Kids

• The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Great
  • Job
  • Divorce

• I want to go out and chase greatness. That's all I want to do.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Want
  • Greatness
  • Chase

• We are fully aware that, in a world at war, each set of belligerents is over ready to regard those who are not with them as against them; but the course we have followed is a just course.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • World
  • War
  • Ready

• Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines hierarchy; among men, it has also been savagely the same, whereby rulers vested with power through personal combat, or through lineal heritage as in the case of royalty, ravage their subjects.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Men
  • Power
  • Man

• I have seen motions of the air so furious that they have carried, mixed up in their course, the largest trees of the forest and whole roofs of great palaces, and I have seen the same fury bore a hole with a whirling movement digging out a gravel pit, and carrying gravel, sand and water more than half a mile through the air.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Up
  • Great
  • Water

• I don't like to make a big splash anyway.

  

  Larry David
  • Like
  • Big
  • Splash

• People who have life-challenging experiences who choose to remain invested in a consistent catastrophic interpretation are not the ones I meet. I have met many more people who have recognized how vital it is to their healing and to the quality of their life to interpret their experiences differently. That is why some of the people I've met who have life-challenging illnesses are much happier than some people I've known who are physically quite healthy and yet who live lives of greater desperation and depression.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• During my time in the Dolls, I was told that I shouldn't sing, that I wasn't allowed, and I suppose that had an impact on me.

  

  Ashley Roberts
  • Sing
  • Impact
  • Dolls

• We underestimate the distance between ourselves and others. Not just inferential distance, but distances of temperament and ability, distances of situation and resource, distances of unspoken knowledge and unnoticed skills and luck, distances of interior landscape.

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • Knowledge
  • Distance
  • Luck