"I am a full-time Research Fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, a small 501(c)(3) public charity supported primarily by individual donations."

-- Eliezer Yudkowsky

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“The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us, but that we will hear Him.”
“I'd rather make a mistake than do nothing.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“A major cause of the Roman Empire's decline, after six centuries of world dominance was its replacement of stone aqueducts by lead pipes for the transport and supply of drinking water. Roman engineers, the best in the world, turned their fellow citizens into cripples. Today our own "best and brightest," with the best of intentions, achieve the same end through childhood vaccination programmes yielding the modern scourges of hyperactivity, learning disabilities, autism, appetite disorders, and impulsive violence.”
“I will also tell you a secret. We have to will one another: this is the beginning of conscious love.”
“The drive of the story is sort of hinted at the beginning, is Joy and Sadness and those two characters. Especially Joy starting to understand that there's more to life than being happy. And so that's based on real life observations and things that we've learned as adults.”

Source : "Inside Out and Lava: Sneak Peek". Interview with Tara Salinas, www.trippinwithtara.com. March 12, 2015.
“Ecstasy is a glimpse of the infinite; horror is full disclosure.”
“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
“It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment.”

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