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[[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
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 [[
Most of his fictional works are [[Author Tract
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* [[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."]
* [[
* [[Child Prodigy]]: He was one.
* [[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
* [[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.
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* [[Jewish and Nerdy]]
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: His explanation of [http://lesswrong.com/lw/up/shut_up_and_do_the_impossible/nxw how he could "win" the AI-Box experiment].
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* [[Measuring the Marigolds]]: Criticized and averted; he wants people to be able to see [http://lesswrong.com/lw/or/joy_in_the_merely_real/ joy in the 'merely' real world].
* [[Old Shame]]: The document [http://lesswrong.com/lw/yd/the_thing_that_i_protect/qze Creating Friendly AI], along with much of what he wrote before fully [http://lesswrong.com/lw/ue/the_magnitude_of_his_own_folly/ recognizing the dangers of AI].
** It's still possible to find some really awful fiction that he wrote on [[
* [[One of Us]]: Partakes from time to time in discussions here, usually regarding his own writing.
* [[Protectorate]]: [http://lesswrong.com/lw/yd/the_thing_that_i_protect/ The Thing That I Protect].
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* [[Transhumanism]]: He is a transhumanist.
* [[True Art Is Angsty]]: [http://lesswrong.com/lw/xi/serious_stories/ Discussed/invoked]:
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* [[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]]
* [[Disobey This Message]]: Discussed in a number of posts.
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* [[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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