Eliezer Yudkowsky: Difference between revisions
Rescuing 2 sources and tagging 0 as dead. #IABot (v2.0beta14)
(update links) |
(Rescuing 2 sources and tagging 0 as dead. #IABot (v2.0beta14)) |
||
| (3 intermediate revisions by one other user not shown) | |||
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]}}
Line 5 ⟶ 6:
Author of ''[[Three Worlds Collide]]'' and ''[[Harry Potter and 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 [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot|AI less of a crapshoot]].
Most of his fictional works are [[Author Tract]]s, albeit ones that [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment|many find]] good and entertaining.
| |||