"Between hindsight bias, fake causality, positive bias, anchoring/priming, et cetera et cetera, and above all the dreaded confirmation bias, once an idea gets into your head, it's probably going to stay there."

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Source : "We Change Our Minds Less Often Than We Think" by Eliezer Yudkowsky, lesswrong.com. October 3, 2007.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#Ideas Quotes #Fake Quotes #Causality Quotes

“I make spaces that are calm rather than confrontational. I seek a certain kind of logic that allows you to move in space and perceive it as beautiful and rational. Clarity is a worthwhile quality.”
“Are we not wasps who spend all day in a fruitless attempt to traverse a window-pane - while the other half of the window is wide open?”
“So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.”
“Some days I feel like everyone in my world has plugged themselves into my kidney. I'm so tired. But when you're having dinner with your kids and your husband and someone says something funny or you're dying laughing because your three-year-old made a fart joke, it doesn't matter what else is going on. That's real happiess.”
“Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions.”
“The most direct and practical method of self-development is to achieve yourself by your own effort.”
“Having the kind of infinite loop of what a digital stream is - you can shoot for a long time without cutting - allows me to sometimes perform really exciting things.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Ivan tells Anna: "I used to imagine that being embraced by a woman . . . as something so wonderful that it would make me forget everthing . . . [But] happiness, it turns out, will be to share with you the burden I can't share with anyone else.”

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