Explanation:
Quotes from Eliezer Yudkowsky Books
Eliezer Shlomo Yudkowsky (born September 11, 1979) is an American decision theorist and artificial intelligence (AI) theorist and writer best known for popularizing the idea of friendly artificial intelligence.
He is a co-founder and research fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), a private research nonprofit based in Berkeley, California. His work on the prospect of a runaway intelligence explosion was an influence on Nick Bostrom's Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies.
Occupation:
scientist
Born:
09/11/79 (42)
A clear argument has to lay out an inferential pathway, starting from what the audience already knows or accepts. If you don’t recurse far enough, you’re just talking to yourself.
Explanation:
If I am ignorant about a phenomenon, that is a fact about my own state of mind, not a fact about the phenomenon itself. A phenomenon can seem mysterious to some particular person. There are no phenomena which are mysterious of themselves. To worship a phenomenon because it seems so wonderfully mysterious is to worship your own ignorance.