Eliezer Yudkowsky Quotes
Between hindsight bias, fake causality, positive bias, anchoring/priming, et cetera et cetera, and above all the dreaded confirmation bias, once an idea gets into your head, it's probably going to stay there.Eliezer Yudkowsky
Quotes to Explore
-
Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.
Ian Williams Battles -
Never having alone time is real tough on people.
Yakov Smirnoff -
I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
Pardis Sabeti -
From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
Tecumseh -
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
Walter Lippmann -
If the day comes where I can have my own action figure... I defy any actor to say that's not a good day.
Owain Yeoman
-
Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.
Tavi Gevinson -
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
Edmund Phelps -
My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
Barry Commoner -
I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
Francia Raisa -
Obviously it's more fun having my teammates there and having all that camaraderie, but individual workouts are not a loss.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson -
Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
Nancy Sinatra
-
I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
E. M. Forster -
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
Sallust -
I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
Macaulay Culkin -
I worked in SRK and Salman Khan's films as a child artiste, so Bollywood has always been on my radar.
Madhur Mittal -
I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
Gay Talese
-
We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working.
Donna Shalala -
Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
I'm into crystals and good energy and harnessing more. It's just like prayer. It helps you be grateful, think about good things, and keep that positive energy around you.
Kali Uchis -
Fake it until you make it.
Steven Tyler Aerosmith -
The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.
David Lloyd George -
Between hindsight bias, fake causality, positive bias, anchoring/priming, et cetera et cetera, and above all the dreaded confirmation bias, once an idea gets into your head, it's probably going to stay there.
Eliezer Yudkowsky