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Line 1: {{creator}} [[File:Eliezer Yudkowsky, Stanford 2006 (square crop).jpg\|thumb\|300px\|Eliezer Yudkowsky in 2006.]] {{quote\|''Let me say that Eliezer may have already done more to save the world than most people in history.''\|From a [http://lesswrong.com//lw/2lr/the_importance_of_selfdoubt/2ia7?c{{=}}1 blog comment].}} {{quote\|Rationalism is the belief that Eliezer Yudkowsky is the rightful caliph.\|Scott Alexander\|[http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/04/04/the-ideology-is-not-the-movement/ The Ideology is Not the Movement]}} Author of ''[[Three Worlds Collide]]'' and ''[[Harry Potter and ~~The~~the Methods of Rationality]]'', the shorter works ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya/Fanfic Recs\|Trust in God/The Riddle of Kyon]]'' and ''[[Mega Crossover/Fanfic Recs\|The Finale of the Ultimate Meta Mega Crossover]]'', and [http://yudkowsky.net/other/fiction various other fiction]. Helped found and is probably the most prolific poster to the blog/discussion site [[Less Wrong]] (the name of which he has used as a pseudonym on occasion), and is currently writing a book on rationality. His day job is with the [https://web.archive.org/web/20120616070928/http://singinst.org/ Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence], specifically working on how to make an [[AI]] that ''won't'' just [https://web.archive.org/web/20110621172641/http://singinst.org/riskintro/index.html kill us all accidentally], and make [[AIA.I. Is a Crapshoot\|AI less of a crapshoot]]. Most of his fictional works are [[Author Tract~~\|Author Tracts~~]]s, albeit ones that [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment\|many find]] good and entertaining. ~~Occasionally [[One of Us\|drops by our very own forums]].~~ ---- {{~~tropelist~~creatortropes\|Tropes describing Yudkowsky or his work:}} * [[Atheism\|Atheist]]: Doesn't mind calling religion "insanity", but believes in promoting [http://lesswrong.com/lw/1e/raising_the_sanity_waterline/ rational thinking in general] and letting atheism follow. * [[Badass Boast]]: [http://lesswrong.com/lw/gz/policy_debates_should_not_appear_onesided/ "Unfortunately the universe doesn't agree with me. We'll see which one of us is still standing when this is over."] Line 19 ⟶ 20: * [[The End of the World as We Know It]]: Seeks to prevent it. * [[Fan Boy]]: Isn't one, but has them despite trying to [http://lesswrong.com/lw/ln/resist_the_happy_death_spiral/ warn against being one]. * [[Genre Adultery]]: Almost all of his works, whether [[Harry Potter and ~~The~~the Methods of Rationality ~~(Fanfic)~~\|fanfic]] or [[Three Worlds Collide\|original]], are highly philosophical [[Author Tract\|Author Tracts]]. And then there's ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5731071/1/Peggy_Susie Peggy Susie]'', which is merely {{spoiler\|a ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' fic}} and parody of ''[[The Terminator]]''... with no philosophical elements whatsoever. * [[Hannibal Lecture]]: In the [http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/aibox AI-Box] [http://lesswrong.com/lw/up/shut_up_and_do_the_impossible/ experiment], presumably. * [[Human Popsicle]]: His membership with the [http://www.cryonics.org/ Cryonics Institute] is his backup plan if he dies before achieving proper immortality. Line 55 ⟶ 56: {{reflist}} [[Category:Mega Crossover/Fanfic Recs]] [[Category:Fan Fics (Fanfic)]]▼ [[Category:Authors]] [[Category:Eliezer Yudkowsky]] ▲[[Category:~~Fan~~Fanfic ~~Fics (Fanfic)~~Authors]]