"Most Muggles lived in a world defined by the limits of what you could do with cars and telephones. Even though Muggle physics explicitly permitted possibilities like molecular nanotechnology or the Penrose process for extracting energy from black holes, most people filed that away in the same section of their brain that stored fairy tales and history books, well away from their personal realities: Long ago and far away, ever so long ago."

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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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