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Eliezer Yudkowsky

Three Worlds Collide

  • Meruyert Mirzabekovahas quoted4 years ago
    "Ah," the Master of Fandom said, "so I guess this is when we find out who we really are." He paused for a moment, then shrugged. "I don't seem to be anyone in particular.
  • Meruyert Mirzabekovahas quoted4 years ago
    Shut up and multiply, as the saying goes
  • Meruyert Mirzabekovahas quoted4 years ago
    Being the voice of pessimism comes easily to us, and few indeed are those among the human kind who must rationally be nudged upward... We advise, but do not lead. Debate, but do not decide. We're going along for your ride, and trying not to be too shocked so that we can be almost as delighted as you
  • Meruyert Mirzabekovahas quoted4 years ago
    You are the beautiful and shining children, and this is your world, and you are the ones who must decide what to do with it now."
  • Meruyert Mirzabekovahas quoted4 years ago
    . "There was an old saying, to the effect that while someone with a single bee sting will pay much for a remedy, to someone with five bee stings, removing just one sting seems less attractive.
  • Meruyert Mirzabekovahas quoted4 years ago
    t I've only been going along with society all my life, and that I never thought the matter through for myself, until now."
  • Meruyert Mirzabekovahas quoted4 years ago
    There were so many choices, so many branchings in human history - what are the odds we got them all right?"
  • Meruyert Mirzabekovahas quoted4 years ago
    . If you want to stay together, do not split. If you want peace, do not start wars. If you want to avoid genocide, do not wipe out an alien species. But if these are not your highest values, then you may well end up sacrificing them.
  • Meruyert Mirzabekovahas quoted4 years ago
    all stories are fundamentally about personal sacrifice and loss - that's their theory of literature.
  • Meruyert Mirzabekovahas quoted4 years ago
    The word for wrong is the same symbol as mercy, you see."
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