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"Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge."

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About Eliezer Yudkowsky

Eliezer Yudkowsky is an American AI safety researcher and writer. He co-founded the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and is known for work on rationality and AI alignment. He has published essays and technical writing on long-term AI risk.

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