Eliezer Yudkowsky Quotes

The U.S. space program has mythologies attached to pioneering and conquering, but the Russian tradition is very different. In the Russian tradition, the ultimate goal of humanity was to resurrect all humans.

Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment.

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

I show people how to build their own immortality device.

As the inventor of the Immortality Device, I basically just tell people what I honestly think.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

At this rate, I'll live forever.

When we have all data online it will be great for humanity. It is a prerequisite to solving many problems that humankind faces.

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.

We actually have the tools in the life sciences to achieve anything that you have the audacity to envision. I just hope to live long enough not to die.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

Well, if you don't want your relatives and friends to die, help me spread the news. Let people know about immortality device. That way, your loved ones won't die.

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.

Sure, our three-pound brains might be inadequate to understand the universe. But perhaps they're just good enough to build something that can.

For me, the key to longevity - and immortality, in a sense - has to do with transformation.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.

Sure, we think it would be great to live forever, but it really wouldn't.

I believe if we could enable people to live forever, we should do that. I think this is absolute.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

Living a very long time would be a very scary thing.

There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly applied under conditions of peace and justice.

Some people believe that you should die, and some people think dying is a nuisance. I'm one of the latter. So I think we should get rid of death.

Going from PayPal, I thought: 'Well, what are some of the other problems that are likely to most affect the future of humanity?' Not from the perspective, 'What's the best way to make money?'

Thus the recent rapid evolution of human intelligence is not only the cause of but also the only conceivable solution to the many serious problems that beset us.