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{{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].}}
Author of [[Three Worlds Collide]] and [[Harry Potter and The Methods of Rationality]], the shorter works [[Haruhi Suzumiya
His day job is with the [http://singinst.org/ Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence], specifically working on how to make an [[AI]] that ''won't'' just [http://singinst.org/riskintro/index.html kill us all accidentally], and make [[AI Is a Crapshoot|AI less of a crapshoot]].
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* [[Dead Little Sister|Dead Little Brother]]: Sort of; His little brother [http://yudkowsky.net/other/yehuda died] at the age of 19, but although it may have made Yudkowsky's search for immortality more personal, he was already an atheist, [[Living Forever Is Awesome|immortalist]] and an advocate for cryonics before this tragic incident.
* [[Eats Babies]]: [http://lesswrong.com/lw/1ww/undiscriminating_skepticism/1scb?context=2 Presented without comment.]
* [[The End of the World
* [[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 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.
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* [[Transhumanism]]: He is a transhumanist.
* [[True Art Is Angsty]]: [http://lesswrong.com/lw/xi/serious_stories/ Discussed/invoked]:
{{quote| ''In one sense, it's clear that we do not want to live the sort of lives that are depicted in most stories that human authors have written so far. Think of the truly great stories, the ones that have become legendary for being the very best of the best of their genre: ''[[
* [[We Do the Impossible]]: [http://lesswrong.com/lw/65/money_the_unit_of_caring/ "I specialize...in the impossible questions business."]. See also [http://lesswrong.com/lw/un/on_doing_the_impossible/ On Doing the Impossible].
* [[The World Is Just Awesome]]
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{{quote| ...if you think you would ''totally'' wear that [http://lesswrong.com/lw/mb/lonely_dissent/ clown suit], then don't be too proud of that either! It just means that you need to make an effort in the ''opposite'' direction to avoid dissenting too easily.}}
* [[Drugs Are Bad]]: Averted -- Although Yudkowsky apparently [http://lesswrong.com/lw/1ww/undiscriminating_skepticism/1r80?c=1 doesn't want] to try mind-altering drugs, he is [http://lesswrong.com/lw/66/rationality_common_interest_of_many_causes/ in favor] of drug legalization.
* [[Holding Out for
* [[Literal Genie]]: What an improperly designed AI [http://lesswrong.com/lw/ld/the_hidden_complexity_of_wishes/ would] [http://lesswrong.com/lw/tc/unnatural_categories/ be].
* [[Living Forever Is Awesome]]: He definitely [http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/simplified wants nobody to die anymore].
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