Eliezer Yudkowsky Facts

124 Post author: steven0461 22 March 2009 08:17PM
  • Eliezer Yudkowsky was once attacked by a Moebius strip. He beat it to death with the other side, non-violently.
  • Inside Eliezer Yudkowsky's pineal gland is not an immortal soul, but another brain.
  • Eliezer Yudkowsky's favorite food is printouts of Rice's theorem.
  • Eliezer Yudkowsky's favorite fighting technique is a roundhouse dustspeck to the face.
  • Eliezer Yudkowsky once brought peace to the Middle East from inside a freight container, through a straw.
  • Eliezer Yudkowsky once held up a sheet of paper and said, "A blank map does not correspond to a blank territory". It was thus that the universe was created.
  • If you dial Chaitin's Omega, you get Eliezer Yudkowsky on the phone.
  • Unless otherwise specified, Eliezer Yudkowsky knows everything that he isn't telling you.
  • Somewhere deep in the microtubules inside an out-of-the-way neuron somewhere in the basal ganglia of Eliezer Yudkowsky's brain, there is a little XML tag that says awesome.
  • Eliezer Yudkowsky is the Muhammad Ali of one-boxing.
  • Eliezer Yudkowsky is a 1400 year old avatar of the Aztec god Aixitl.
  • The game of "Go" was abbreviated from "Go Home, For You Cannot Defeat Eliezer Yudkowsky".
  • When Eliezer Yudkowsky gets bored, he pinches his mouth shut at the 1/3 and 2/3 points and pretends to be a General Systems Vehicle holding a conversation among itselves. On several occasions he has managed to fool bystanders.
  • Eliezer Yudkowsky has a swiss army knife that has folded into it a corkscrew, a pair of scissors, an instance of AIXI which Eliezer once beat at tic tac toe, an identical swiss army knife, and Douglas Hofstadter.
  • If I am ignorant about a phenomenon, that is not a fact about the phenomenon; it just means I am not Eliezer Yudkowsky.
  • Eliezer Yudkowsky has no need for induction or deduction. He has perfected the undiluted master art of duction.
  • There was no ice age. Eliezer Yudkowsky just persuaded the planet to sign up for cryonics.
  • There is no spacetime symmetry. Eliezer Yudkowsky just sometimes holds the territory upside down, and he doesn't care.
  • Eliezer Yudkowsky has no need for doctors. He has implemented a Universal Curing Machine in a system made out of five marbles, three pieces of plastic, and some of MacGyver's fingernail clippings.
  • Before Bruce Schneier goes to sleep, he scans his computer for uploaded copies of Eliezer Yudkowsky.

If you know more Eliezer Yudkowsky facts, post them in the comments.

Comments (290)

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Comment author: Annoyance 23 March 2009 02:50:45PM -1 points [-]

Why is this posted to LessWrong?

What does it have to do with being less wrong or sharpening our rationality?

Comment author: mfb 11 February 2012 09:01:55PM 1 point [-]

Based on my utility function, it gives me utils to read this.

Eliezer Yudkowsky does not decide rational between multiple options. He takes all options in parallel.

Comment author: steven0461 23 March 2009 02:55:29PM *  2 points [-]

Not a lot, I guess. I had part of it lying around as an old blog post draft and it seemed fitting given recent discussions.

Comment author: BenRayfield 31 December 2009 08:40:07PM 12 points [-]

We are Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. If Star Trek's Borg Collective came to assimilate everyone on Earth, Eliezer Yudkowsky would engage them in logical debate until they agreed they should come back later after our technology has increased exponentially for some number of years, a more valuable thing for them to assimilate. Also, he would underestimate how fast our technology increases just enough that when the Borg came back, we would be the stronger force.

Why is this posted to LessWrong? What does it have to do with being less wrong or sharpening our rationality?

Rational minds need comedy too, or they go insane. Much of this is vaguely related to rational subjects so it does not fit well in other websites.

Comment author: DanArmak 31 December 2009 08:58:06PM *  6 points [-]

Rational minds need comedy too, or they go insane.

Not necessarily. It's just that we are very far from being perfectly rational.

Comment author: BenRayfield 01 January 2010 01:41:40AM 3 points [-]

Not necessarily. It's just that we are very far from being perfectly rational.

You're right. I wrote "rational minds" in general when I was thinking about the most rational few of people today. I did not mean any perfectly rational mind exists.

Most or all Human brains tend to work better if they experience certain kinds of things that may include wasteful parts, like comedy, socializing, and dreaming. Its not rational to waste more than you have to. Today we do not have enough knowledge and control over our minds to optimize away all our wasteful/suboptimal thoughts.

I have no reason to think, in the "design space" of all possible minds, there exists 0, or there exists more than 0, perfectly rational minds that tend to think more efficiently after experiencing comedy.

I do have a reason to slightly bias it toward "there exists more than 0" because Humans and monkeys have a sense of humor that helps them think better if used at least once per day, but when thinking about exponential size intelligence, that slight bias becomes an epsilon. Epsilon can be important if you're completely undecided, but usually its best to look for ideas somewhere else before considering an epsilon size chance. What people normally call "smarter than Human intelligence" is also an epsilon size intelligence in this context, so the 2 things are not epsilon when compared to eachother.

The main thing I've figured out here is to be more open-minded about if comedy (and similar things) can increase the efficiency of a rational mind or not. I let an assumption get into my writing.

Comment author: lukeprog 10 April 2011 11:59:31PM 1 point [-]

Oh my God this is such a great thread.

Comment author: BrentAllsop 24 July 2009 01:36:32AM 0 points [-]

Eliezer Yudkowsky doesn't fear unfriendly AI, he just wants everyone else to fear them.

Comment author: DSimon 06 August 2011 04:57:27AM *  0 points [-]

Eliezer Yudkowsky already knows how to shot web.

Comment author: steven0461 22 March 2009 08:51:25PM *  1 point [-]

If it's apparently THAT bad an idea (and/or execution), is it considered bad form to just delete the whole thing?

(edit: this post now obsolete; thanks, all)

Comment author: ciphergoth 22 March 2009 10:52:15PM 4 points [-]

No, I like this game! Nearly all the ones up to and including one-boxing are giggle-out-loud funny, and there are some gems after that too.

Comment author: Z_M_Davis 22 March 2009 08:53:45PM 6 points [-]

Leave it up! This is hilarious; thank you!

Comment author: pjeby 22 March 2009 09:03:01PM 28 points [-]

I agree as well.

ObEliezerFact: Eliezer Yudkowsky didn't run away from grade school... grade school ran away from Eliezer Yudkowsky.

Comment author: CarlShulman 22 March 2009 09:02:29PM 9 points [-]

I laughed out loud, and I'd say keep it but don't promote it..

Comment author: gjm 22 March 2009 09:23:58PM 23 points [-]

Add me to the list of people who thought it was laugh-out-loud funny. I'm glad this sort of thing doesn't make up a large fraction of LW articles but please, no, don't delete it.

Comment author: private_messaging 15 June 2012 10:07:01AM -1 points [-]

Eliezer Yudkowsky uses Solomonoff induction to decide on correct priors of hypotheses.

Comment author: Will_Newsome 16 April 2010 12:29:23AM 1 point [-]

Eliezer Yudkowsky is a superstimulus for perfection.

Comment author: insaneabd 14 April 2009 08:07:11PM 2 points [-]

An Eliezer Yudkowsky article a day keeps irrationality away.

Comment author: roland 09 December 2011 07:18:35PM 7 points [-]

Slight improvement?

An Eliezer Yudkowsky article a day keeps irrationality at bay.

Comment author: woodside 17 July 2012 05:19:09PM 4 points [-]

An Eliezer Yudkowsky post a day keeps the bias at bay.

Comment author: [deleted] 25 February 2013 10:01:48AM 3 points [-]

Posts like this reinforce the suspicion that LessWrong is a personality cult.

Comment author: Fadeway 25 February 2013 11:11:28AM 13 points [-]

I disagree. This entire thread is so obviously a joke, one could only take it as evidence if they've already decided what they want to believe and are just looking for arguments.

It does show that EY is a popular figure around here, since nobody goes around starting Chuck Norris threads about random people, but that's hardly evidence for a cult. Hell, in the case of Norris himself, it's the opposite.

Comment author: IlyaShpitser 25 February 2013 11:46:10AM *  5 points [-]

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2011/01/how-good-are-laughs.html

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/07/laughter.html

I find these "jokes" pretty creepy myself. The facts about Chuck Norris is that he's a washed up actor selling exercise equipment. I think Chuck Norris jokes/stories are a modern internet version of Paul Bunyan stories in American folklore or bogatyr stories in Russian folklore. There is danger here -- I don't think these stories are about humor.

Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 25 February 2013 12:00:03PM 0 points [-]

There is danger here -- I don't think these stories are about humor.

What are they about, if not humor?

Comment author: IlyaShpitser 26 February 2013 03:23:22PM 6 points [-]

I think "tall tales" and such fill a need to create larger than life heroes and epics about them. This may have something to do with our primate nature: we need the Other to fling poop at, but also a kind of paragon tribal representation to idolize.

Idolatry is a dangerous stance, even if it is a natural stance for us to assume.

Comment author: [deleted] 25 February 2013 12:17:16PM 8 points [-]

I think they're mostly about humour, but there's a non-negligible part of “yay Eliezer Yudkowsky!” thrown in.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 25 February 2013 08:18:43PM *  4 points [-]

It's a castle of humour built on the foundation “yay Eliezer Yudkowsky!” It's a very elaborate castle, and every now and then someone still adds another turret, but none of it would exist without that foundation.

Comment author: SilasBarta 17 June 2009 01:54:12AM 2 points [-]

There is no "time", just events Eliezer Yudkowsky has felt like allowing.

Comment author: Rune 22 March 2009 10:34:39PM 5 points [-]
  • Eliezer Yudkowsky can isolate magnetic monopoles; he gives them to small orphan children as birthday presents.
  • Eliezer Yudkowsky once challenged God to a contest to see who knew the most about physics. Eliezer Yudkowsky won and disproved God.
  • Eliezer Yudkowsky once checkmated Kasparov in seven moves — while playing Monopoly.
  • At the age of eight, Eliezer Yudkowsky built a fully functional AGI out of LEGO.
  • Eliezer Yudkowsky never includes error estimates in his experimental write ups: his results are always exact by definition.
  • When foxes have a good idea they say it is "as cunning as Eliezer Yudkowsky".
  • Apple pays Eliezer Yudkowsky 99 cents every time he listens to a song.
  • Eliezer Yudkowsky can kill two stones with one bird.
  • When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night, he checks his closet for Eliezer Yudkowsky.
  • Eliezer Yudkowsky can derive the Axiom of Choice from ZF Set Theory.
Comment author: PaulWright 23 March 2009 02:00:14AM 6 points [-]

Eliezer Yudkowsky can isolate magnetic monopoles

Nah, that's Dave Green. You'd better hope Dr Green doesn't find out...

Comment author: PhilGoetz 23 March 2009 03:33:25AM 15 points [-]

These are funny. But some are from a website about Chuck Norris! Don't incite Chuck's wrath against Eliezer.

If Chuck Norris and Eliezer ever got into a fight in just one world, it would destroy all possible worlds. Fortunately there are no possible worlds in which Eliezer lets this happen.

Comment author: Yvain 23 March 2009 10:43:10AM 51 points [-]

All problems can be solved with Bayesian logic and expected utility. "Bayesian logic" and "expected utility" are the names of Eliezer Yudkowsky's fists.

Comment author: bogdanb 11 January 2013 09:08:09AM 12 points [-]

At the age of eight, Eliezer Yudkowsky built a fully functional AGI out of LEGO. It's still fooming, just very, very slowly.

Comment author: patrissimo 06 August 2011 03:44:11AM 3 points [-]

Eliezer Yudkowsky doesn't have a chin, underneath his beard is another brain.

Comment author: xamdam 29 July 2010 07:41:23PM 3 points [-]
  • The problem with CEV is that the coherence requirement will force it to equal to whatever Eliezer wants in the limit.
Comment author: [deleted] 19 October 2010 06:18:37PM 4 points [-]

There is no chin behind Eliezer Yudkowsky's beard. There is only another brain.

Comment author: [deleted] 15 July 2012 03:31:44AM 0 points [-]

If deities do not exist, it would be necessary for Eliezer to invent them

Comment author: hairyfigment 15 July 2012 05:44:45AM 13 points [-]

No, no:

'Since deities do not exist, it is necessary for Eliezer to invent them.'

To which someone else should reply:

This is how Eliezer argued himself into existence.

Comment author: roland 09 December 2011 07:21:50PM 5 points [-]

A russian pharmacological company was trying to make a drug against stupidity with the name of "EliminateStupodsky", the result was Eliezer Yudkowsky.

Comment author: J_Taylor 09 December 2011 07:26:07PM *  49 points [-]

When I read part of this in Recent Comments, I was almost entirely sure this comment would be spam. This is probably one of the few legit comments ever made which began with "A russian pharmacological company."

Comment author: timujin 14 January 2014 10:33:10AM 0 points [-]

What's so bad about russian pharmacological companies?

Comment author: roland 21 February 2014 10:47:07PM -2 points [-]

Eliezer Yudkowsky wears goggles against dust specks.

Comment author: polymathwannabe 21 February 2014 11:05:36PM -2 points [-]

He could make an imposibillion dollars by selling the required 3^^^3 pairs of goggles.

Comment author: [deleted] 04 December 2013 06:51:27PM 2 points [-]

Eliezer Yudkowsky once brought peace to the Middle East from inside a freight container, through a straw.

This one doesn't sound particularly EY-related to me; it might as well be Chuck Norris.

Comment author: David_Gerard 20 December 2013 11:47:43AM 8 points [-]

It's an AI-Box joke.

Comment author: RolfAndreassen 07 September 2009 08:00:44PM 12 points [-]

You do not really know anything about Eliezer Yudkowsky until you can build one from rubber bands and paperclips. Unfortunately, doing so would require that you first transform all matter in the Universe into paperclips and rubber bands, otherwise you will not have sufficient raw materials. Consequently, if you are ignorant about Eliezer Ydkowsky (which has just been shown), this is a statement about Eliezer Yudkowsky, not about your state of knowledge.

Comment author: [deleted] 09 September 2012 08:10:36AM *  15 points [-]

Eliezer's approval makes actions tautologically non-abusive.

Comment author: Will_Newsome 31 October 2010 04:07:47PM *  29 points [-]

I think Less Wrong is a pretty cool guy. eh writes Hary Potter fanfic and doesnt afraid of acausal blackmails.

Comment author: chaosmosis 17 July 2012 01:45:16AM 7 points [-]

If you see Eliezer Yudkowsky on the road, do not kill him.

Comment author: gwern 17 July 2012 03:41:12PM 7 points [-]

If you meet the Eliezer on the road, cryopreserve it!

Comment author: Document 17 July 2012 04:37:51PM 11 points [-]

If you see Eliezer Yudkowsky on the road, Pascal's-mug him.

Comment author: gwern 24 March 2009 12:42:57AM 14 points [-]

Eliezer Yudkowsky's favorite food is printouts of Rice's theorem.

This isn't bad, but I think it can be better. Here's my try:

You eat Rice Krispies for breakfast; Eliezer Yudkowsky eats Rice theorems.

Comment author: James_Miller 16 June 2009 06:38:26PM *  12 points [-]

The Busy Beaver function was created to quantify Eliezer Yudkowsky 's IQ.

Comment author: roland 24 March 2009 02:32:44AM *  13 points [-]
  • When Eliezer Yudkowsky wakes up in the morning he asks himself: why do I believe that I'm Eliezer Yudkowsky?
Comment author: lmm 17 January 2014 10:38:58PM 2 points [-]

You mean you don't do that?

Comment author: gjm 17 January 2014 11:28:46PM 3 points [-]

I have never (in the morning or at any other time) asked myself why I believe I'm Eliezer Yudkowsky.

Comment author: blacktrance 17 January 2014 11:48:36PM 4 points [-]

Maybe it's time to start.

Comment author: therufs 27 February 2013 05:49:11PM 11 points [-]

Eliezer Yudkowsky's Patronus is Harry Potter.

Comment author: Larks 27 February 2013 06:26:58PM 11 points [-]

Eliezer Yudkowsky is his own Patronus.

Comment author: shware 19 July 2014 02:14:04PM 4 points [-]

I feel this should not be in featured posts, as amusing as it was at the time

Comment author: roland 02 November 2012 10:30:33PM 4 points [-]
Comment author: [deleted] 28 February 2012 12:07:23AM 4 points [-]

question: What is your verdict on my observation that the jokes on this page would be less hilarious if they used only Eliezer's first name instead of the full 'Eliezer Yudkowsky'?

I speculate that some of the humor derives from using the full name — perhaps because of how it sounds, or because of the repetition, or even simply because of the length of the name.

Comment author: Sarokrae 13 September 2012 03:18:47PM *  5 points [-]

The consonant "k" is funny, according to I think something Richard Wiseman once wrote...

Comment author: [deleted] 28 February 2012 01:09:45AM *  5 points [-]

...or even because it pattern-matches Chuck Norris jokes, which use the actor's full name.

ETA: On the other hand, Yudkowsky alone does have the same number of syllables and stress pattern as Chuck Norris, and the sheer length of the full name does contribute to the effect of this IMO.

Comment author: lockeandkeynes 16 September 2010 05:03:49AM 4 points [-]

Eliezer Yudkowsky only drinks from Klein Bottles.

Comment author: David_Gerard 20 December 2013 11:55:40AM 0 points [-]
Comment author: thomblake 18 May 2010 03:29:35PM 9 points [-]
Comment author: Will_Newsome 10 March 2010 08:36:56AM *  9 points [-]

Eliezer Yudkowsky can slay Omega with two suicide rocks and a sling.

Comment author: CronoDAS 24 March 2009 03:11:15AM 9 points [-]

Eliezer Yudkowski can solve NP complete problems in polynomial time.

Comment author: Meni_Rosenfeld 19 October 2010 03:21:11PM 8 points [-]

Eliezer Yudkowski can solve EXPTIME-complete problems in polynomial time.

Comment author: Technologos 23 March 2009 04:05:31AM *  33 points [-]
  • Eliezer Yudkowsky has counted to Aleph 3^^^3.
  • The payoff to defection in the Prisoner's Dilemma against Eliezer Yudkowsky is a paperclip. In the eye.
  • The Peano axioms are complete and consistent for Eliezer Yudkowsky.
  • In an Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma between Chuck Norris and Eliezer Yudkowsky, Chuck always cooperates and Eliezer defects. Chuck knows not to mess with his superiors.
  • Eliezer Yudkowsky's brain actually exists in a Hilbert space.
  • In Japan, it is common to hear the phrase Eliezer naritai!
Comment author: avalot 19 October 2010 04:22:58PM 35 points [-]
  • The sound of one hand clapping is "Eliezer Yudkowsky, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Eliezer Yudkowsky..."
  • Eliezer Yudkowsky displays search results before you type.
  • Eliezer Yudkowsky's name can't be abbreviated. It must take up most of your tweet.
  • Eliezer Yudkowsky doesn't actually exist. All his posts were written by an American man with the same name.
  • If Eliezer Yudkowsky falls in the forest, and nobody's there to hear him, he still makes a sound.
  • Eliezer Yudkowsky doesn't believe in the divine, because he's never had the experience of discovering Eliezer Yudkowsky.
  • "Eliezer Yudkowsky" is a sacred mantra you can chant over and over again to impress your friends and neighbors, without having to actually understand and apply rationality in your life. Nifty!
Comment author: timujin 14 January 2014 10:27:27AM 4 points [-]

The last one actually works!

Comment author: steven0461 23 March 2009 02:46:26PM 21 points [-]

Snow is white if and only if that's what Eliezer Yudkowsky wants to believe.

Comment author: [deleted] 18 October 2009 02:19:21AM 25 points [-]

Ironically, this is mathematically true. (Assuming Eliezer hasn't forsaken epistemic rationality, that is.) It's just that if Eliezer changes what he wants to believe, the color of snow won't change to reflect it.

Comment author: JohannesDahlstrom 01 April 2010 09:01:25AM 8 points [-]

It's just that if Eliezer changes what he wants to believe, the color of snow won't change to reflect it.

What?! Blasphemy!

Comment author: Will_Newsome 07 March 2010 09:24:22PM 26 points [-]

Some people can perform surgery to save kittens. Eliezer Yudkowsky can perform counterfactual surgery to save kittens before they're even in danger.

Comment author: Wei_Dai 29 July 2010 05:47:48PM *  34 points [-]

We're all living in a figment of Eliezer Yudkowsky's imagination, which came into existence as he started contemplating the potential consequences of deleting a certain Less Wrong post.

Comment author: SilasBarta 29 July 2010 06:06:28PM 3 points [-]

Wow! So the real world never had the PUA flamewar!

Comment author: Blueberry 30 July 2010 07:29:04AM *  7 points [-]

No, the PUA flamewar occurred in both worlds: this world just diverged from the real one a few days ago, after Roko made his post.

Comment author: Larks 30 July 2010 11:04:51PM 6 points [-]

Interesting thought:

Assume that our world can't survive by itself, and that this world is destroyed as soon as Eliezer finishes contemplating.

Assume we don't value worlds other than those that diverge from the current one, or at least that we care mainly about that one, and that we care more about worlds or people in proportion to their similarity to ours.

In order to keep this world (or collection of multiple-worlds) running for as long as possible, we need to estimate the utility of the Not-Deleting worlds, and keep our total utility close enough to theirs that Eliezer isn't confident enough to decide either way.

As a second goal, we need to make this set of worlds have a higher utility than the others, so that if he does finish contemplating, he'll decide in favour of ours.

These are just the general characteristics of this sort of world (similar to some of Robin Hanson's thought). Obveously, this contemplation is a special case, and we're not going to explain the special consequences in public.

Comment author: Blueberry 31 July 2010 12:03:13AM 0 points [-]

Assume we don't value worlds other than those that diverge from the current one, or at least that we care mainly about that one, and that we care more about worlds or people in proportion to their similarity to ours.

But I care about the real world. If this world is just a hypothetical, why should I care about it? Also, the real me, in the real world, is very very similar to the hypothetical me. Out of over nine thousand days, there are only a few different ones.

As a second goal, we need to make this set of worlds have a higher utility than the others, so that if he does finish contemplating, he'll decide in favour of ours.

Because I care about the real world, I want the best outcome for it, which is that Eliezer keeps Roko's post. I'll lose the last few days, but that's okay: I'll just "pop" back to a couple days ago.

Note that if Eliezer does decide to delete the post in the real world, we'll still "pop" back as the hypothetical ends, and then re-live the last few days, possibly with some slight changes that Eliezer didn't contemplate in his hypothetical.

Comment author: Liron 23 March 2009 09:08:15AM 55 points [-]

Eliezer two-boxes on Newcomb's problem, and both boxes contain money.

Comment author: RobinZ 18 October 2010 03:22:55PM 17 points [-]

Eliezer Omegas on Newcomb's problem.

Comment author: SamE 13 July 2010 06:17:17AM *  17 points [-]
  • Eliezer Yudkowsky two-boxes on Newcomb's problem, and both boxes contain $1 million.
  • Eliezer Yudkowsky two-boxes on Newcomb's problem, and both boxes contain solid utils.
Comment author: DanielLC 18 October 2010 05:30:53AM 22 points [-]

Eliezer three-boxes on Newcomb's problem.

Comment author: ata 18 October 2010 09:34:59PM *  27 points [-]

Eliezer seals a cat in a box with a sample of radioactive material that has a 50% chance of decaying after an hour, and a device that releases poison gas if it detects radioactive decay. After an hour, he opens the box and there are two cats.

Comment author: Vivi 15 September 2011 10:59:09PM 1 point [-]

So Eliezer is simultaneously dead and alive?

Comment author: SilasBarta 18 October 2010 06:22:12PM 67 points [-]

Eliezer Yudkowsky holds the honorary title of Duke Newcomb.

Comment author: Meni_Rosenfeld 18 October 2010 07:23:44PM *  14 points [-]

When Eliezer Yudkowsky divides by zero, he gets a singularity.

Comment author: Meni_Rosenfeld 18 October 2010 07:28:10PM *  0 points [-]

Just in case anyone didn't get the joke (rot13):

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Comment author: ata 09 September 2010 01:52:11AM 14 points [-]

If giants have been able to see further than others, it is because they have stood on the shoulders of Eliezer Yudkowsky.

Comment author: JGWeissman 07 March 2010 09:59:12PM 14 points [-]

Eliezer Yudkowsky once explained:

To answer precisely, you must use beliefs like Earth's gravity is 9.8 meters per second per second, and This building is around 120 meters tall. These beliefs are not wordless anticipations of a sensory experience; they are verbal-ish, propositional. It probably does not exaggerate much to describe these two beliefs as sentences made out of words. But these two beliefs have an inferential consequence that is a direct sensory anticipation - if the clock's second hand is on the 12 numeral when you drop the ball, you anticipate seeing it on the 5 numeral when you hear the crash.

Experiments conducted near the building in question determined the local speed of sound to be 6 meters per second.

(Hat Tip)

Comment author: kboon 28 October 2010 04:21:55PM *  22 points [-]

Xkcd's Randall Munroe once counted to zero, from both positive, and negative infinity which was no mean feat. Not to be outdone, Eliezer Yudkowsky counted the real numbers between zero and one.

Comment author: Benja 09 September 2012 10:32:56PM 17 points [-]

When Eliezer Yudkowsky once woke up as Britney Spears, he recorded the world's most-reviewed song about leveling up as a rationalist.

Eliezer Yudkowsky got Clippy to hold off on reprocessing the solar system by getting it hooked on HP:MoR, and is now writing more slowly in order to have more time to create FAI.

If you need to save the world, you don't give yourself a handicap; you use every tool at your disposal, and you make your job as easy as you possibly can. That said, it is true that Eliezer Yudkowsky once saved the world using nothing but modal logic and a bag of suggestively-named Lisp tokens.

Eliezer Yudkowsky once attended a conference organized by some above-average Powers from the Transcend that were clueful enough to think "Let's invite Eliezer Yudkowsky"; but after a while he gave up and left before the conference was over, because he kept thinking "What am I even doing here?"

Eliezer Yudkowsky has invested specific effort into the awful possibility that one day, he might create an Artificial Intelligence so much smarter than him that after he tells it the basics, it will blaze right past him, solve the problems that have weighed on him for years, and zip off to see humanity safely through the Singularity. It might happen, it might not. But he consoles himself with the fact that it hasn't happened yet.

Eliezer Yudkowsky once wrote a piece of rationalist Harry Potter fanfiction so amazing that it got multiple people to actually change their lives in an effort at being more rational. (...hm'kay, perhaps that's not quite awesome enough to be on this list... but you've got to admit that it's in the neighbourhood.)

Comment author: Benja 04 November 2012 06:55:40PM *  4 points [-]

When Eliezer Yudkowsky does the incredulous stare, it becomes a valid argument.

Comment author: SpaceFrank 28 February 2012 02:14:11PM 9 points [-]

ph'nglui mglw'nafh Eliezer Yudkowsky Clinton Township wgah'nagl fhtagn

Doesn't really roll off the tongue, does it.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryonics_Institute)

Comment author: orthonormal 24 March 2009 06:07:13PM 37 points [-]

Eliezer Yudkowsky knows exactly how best to respond to this thread; he's just left it as homework for us.

Comment author: Will_Newsome 10 March 2010 11:32:35PM 19 points [-]

Unlike Frodo, Eliezer Yudkowsky had no trouble throwing the Ring into the fires of Mount Foom.

Comment author: patrissimo 06 August 2011 03:44:52AM 20 points [-]

Eliezer Yudkowsky's keyboard only has two keys: 1 and 0.

Comment author: patrissimo 06 August 2011 03:44:37AM 20 points [-]

The speed of light used to be much lower before Eliezer Yudkowsky optimized the laws of physics.

Comment author: dfranke 22 March 2009 09:17:07PM 43 points [-]

Eliezer Yudkowsky can escape an AI box while wearing a straight jacket and submerged in a shark tank.

Comment author: Yvain 22 March 2009 09:07:07PM *  97 points [-]

Ooh, this is fun.

Robert Aumann has proven that ideal Bayesians cannot disagree with Eliezer Yudkowsky.
Eliezer Yudkowsky can make AIs Friendly by glaring at them.
Angering Eliezer Yudkowsky is a global existential risk
Eliezer Yudkowsky thought he was wrong one time, but he was mistaken.
Eliezer Yudkowsky predicts Omega's actions with 100% accuracy
An AI programmed to maximize utility will tile the Universe with tiny copies of Eliezer Yudkowksy.

Comment author: Liron 23 March 2009 09:10:08AM 11 points [-]

Angering Eliezer Yudkowsky is a global existential risk

Where's the punch line?

Comment author: dclayh 25 March 2009 04:10:26AM 10 points [-]

Eliezer can in fact tile the Universe with himself, simply by slicing himself into finitely many pieces. The only reason the rest of us are here is quantum immortality.

Comment author: Anatoly_Vorobey 22 March 2009 09:28:23PM 30 points [-]

Robert Aumann has proven that ideal Bayesians cannot disagree with Eliezer Yudkowsky.

... because all of them are Eliezer Yudkowsky.

They call it "spontaneous symmetry breaking", because Eliezer Yudkowsky just felt like breaking something one day.

Particles in parallel universes interfere with each other all the time, but nobody interferes with Eliezer Yudkowsky.

An oracle for the Halting Problem is Eliezer Yudkowsky's cellphone number.

When tachyons get confused about their priors and posteriors, they ask Eliezer Yudkowsky for help.

Comment author: SoullessAutomaton 23 March 2009 02:30:29AM 46 points [-]

Eliezer Yudkowsky can make AIs Friendly by glaring at them.

And the first action of any Friendly AI will be to create a nonprofit institute to develop a rigorous theory of Eliezer Yudkowsky. Unfortunately, it will turn out to be an intractable problem.

Comment author: Yvain 23 March 2009 10:42:15AM 49 points [-]

Transhuman AIs theorize that if they could create Eliezer Yudkowsky, it would lead to an "intelligence explosion".

Comment author: PhilGoetz 23 March 2009 02:06:03AM *  48 points [-]
  • Omega one-boxes against Eliezer Yudkowsky.
  • If Michelson and Morley had lived A.Y., they would have found that the speed of light was relative to Eliezer Yudkowsky.
  • Turing machines are not Eliezer-complete.
  • The fact that the Bible contains errors doesn't prove there is no God. It just proves that God shouldn't try to play Eliezer Yudkowsky.
  • Eliezer Yudkowsky has measure 1.
  • Eliezer Yudkowsky doesn't wear glasses to see better. He wears glasses that distort his vision, to avoid violating the uncertainty principle.
Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 02 January 2011 02:58:25AM 12 points [-]

Eliezer Yudkowsky doesn't wear glasses to see better. He wears glasses that distort his vision, to avoid violating the uncertainty principle.

Eliezer Yudkowsky took his glasses off once. Now he calls it the certainty principle.

Comment author: PeerInfinity 23 November 2010 10:54:57PM 29 points [-]

Eliezer Yudkowsky can make Chuck Norris shave his beard off by using text-only communication

(stolen from here)

Comment author: [deleted] 03 January 2012 01:07:42AM 6 points [-]

Now I'm too curious whether this would actually be true. Would the two of them test this if I paid them $50 each (plus an extra $10 for the winner)?

Comment author: gwern 03 January 2012 02:05:57AM 4 points [-]

$50 won't even get you in to talk to Norris. (Wouldn't do it even at his old charity martial arts things.) Maybe not Eliezer either. Norris is kept pretty darn busy in part due to his memetic status.

Comment author: [deleted] 10 June 2012 07:32:54PM 2 points [-]

On the other hand, EY might accept because if he won such a bet, it would bring tremendous visibility to him, SIAI, and uFAI-related concepts among the wider public.

Comment author: [deleted] 03 January 2012 11:50:26AM *  2 points [-]

Well, I'd increase those figures by a few orders of magnitude ... if I had a few orders of magnitudes more money than I do now. :-)

Comment author: timujin 15 January 2014 05:31:14PM *  16 points [-]

• Eliezer Yudkowsky uses blank territories for drafts.

• Just before this universe runs out of negentropy, Eliezer Yudkowsky will persuade the Dark Lords of the Matrix to let him out of the universe.

• Eliezer Yudkowsky signed up for cryonics to be revived when technologies are able to make him an immortal alicorn princess.

• Eliezer Yudkowsky's MBTI type is TTTT.

• Eliezer Yudkowsky's punch is the only way to kill a quantum immortal person, because he is guaranteed to punch him in all Everett branches.

• "Turns into an Eliezer Yudkowsky fact when preceded by its quotation" turns into an Eliezer Yudkowsky fact when preceded by its quotation.

• Lesser minds cause wavefunction collapse. Eliezer Yudkowsky's mind prevents it.

• Planet Earth is originally a mechanism designed by aliens to produce Eliezer Yudkowsky from sunlight.

• Real world doesn't make sense. This world is just Eliezer Yudkowsky's fanfic of it. With Eliezer Yudkowsky as a self-insert.

• When Eliezer Yudkowsky takes nootropics, the universe starts to lag from the lack of processing power.

• Eliezer Yudkowsky can kick your ass in an uncountably infinite number of counterfactual universes simultaneously.

Comment author: wedrifid 19 July 2014 06:57:29PM 2 points [-]

Eliezer Yudkowsky's MBTI type is TTTT.

Love it.

Eliezer Yudkowsky can kick your ass in an uncountably infinite number of counterfactual universes simultaneously.

This one seems to be true. True of Eliezer Yudkowsky and true of every other human living or dead (again simultaneously). "Uncountably infinite counterfactual universes" make most mathematically coherent tasks kind of trivial. This is actually a less impressive feat than, say, "Chuck Norris contains at least one water molecule".

Comment author: timujin 20 July 2014 08:33:12PM 1 point [-]

Love it.

I start noticing a pattern in my life. When I tell several jokes at once, people are most amused with the one I think is the least funny.

This one seems to be true. True of Eliezer Yudkowsky and true of every other human living or dead (again simultaneously). "Uncountably infinite counterfactual universes" make most mathematically coherent tasks kind of trivial. This is actually a less impressive feat than, say, "Chuck Norris contains at least one water molecule".

That was not what I was thinking about. I should have been. Kinda obvious in hindsight.

Comment author: jaibot 07 May 2012 01:39:41PM 32 points [-]

Eliezer Yudkowsky updates reality to fit his priors.

Comment author: orthonormal 31 July 2010 06:29:56PM 49 points [-]

Eliezer Yudkowsky can consistently assert the sentence "Eliezer Yudkowsky cannot consistently assert this sentence."

Comment author: badger 22 March 2009 09:37:02PM *  49 points [-]

Everything is reducible -- to Eliezer Yudkowsky.

Scientists only wear lab coats because Eliezer Yudkowsky has yet to be seen wearing a clown suit.

Algorithms want to know how Eliezer Yudkowsky feels from the inside.

Comment author: badger 22 March 2009 09:53:31PM 14 points [-]

P-zombies gain qualia after being in the presence of Eliezer Yudkowsky.

Comment author: badger 22 March 2009 09:41:53PM 45 points [-]

Teachers try to guess Eliezer Yudkowsky's password.

Comment author: Yvain 22 March 2009 09:53:13PM *  90 points [-]

Eliezer Yudkowsky's map is more accurate than the territory.

Comment author: Lightwave 24 July 2009 02:36:22PM 10 points [-]

Eliezer Yudkowsky's map IS the territory.

Comment author: khafra 16 April 2010 11:52:44AM 47 points [-]

I'd prefer "Eliezer Yudkowsky can fold up the territory and put it in his pocket."

Comment author: Lambda 04 February 2012 09:44:51AM 7 points [-]

Mmhmm... Borges time!

In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it. The following Generations, who were not so fond of the Study of Cartography as their Forebears had been, saw that that vast Map was Useless, and not without some Pitilessness was it, that they delivered it up to the Inclemencies of Sun and Winters. In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of that Map, inhabited by Animals and Beggars; in all the Land there is no other Relic of the Disciplines of Geography.

—Jorge Luis Borges, "On Exactitude in Science"

Comment author: SilasBarta 16 June 2009 07:31:59PM 18 points [-]

One time Eliezer Yudkowsky got into a debate with the universe about whose map best corresponded to territory. He told the universe he'd meet it outside and they could settle the argument once and for all.

He's still waiting.

Comment author: ata 30 October 2011 04:41:27PM *  68 points [-]

After Eliezer Yudkowsky was conceived, he recursively self-improved to personhood in mere weeks and then talked his way out of the womb.

Comment author: Wei_Dai 24 July 2009 02:55:20AM *  51 points [-]
  • After the truth destroyed everything it could, the only thing left was Eliezer Yudkowsky.
  • In his free time, Eliezer Yudkowsky likes to help the Halting Oracle answer especially difficult queries.
  • Eliezer Yudkowsky actually happens to be the pinnacle of Intelligent Design. He only claims to be the product of evolution to remain approachable to the rest of us.
  • Omega did its Ph.D. thesis on Eliezer Yudkowsky. Needless to say, it's too long to be published in this world. Omega is now doing post-doctoral research, tentatively titled "Causality vs. Eliezer Yudkowsky - An Indistinguishability Argument".
Comment author: Wei_Dai 24 July 2009 11:02:03PM 69 points [-]
  • It was easier for Eliezer Yudkowsky to reformulate decision theory to exclude time than to buy a new watch.
  • Eliezer Yudkowsky's favorite sport is black hole diving. His information density is so great that no black hole can absorb him, so he just bounces right off the event horizon.
  • God desperately wants to believe that when Eliezer Yudkowsky says "God doesn't exist," it's just good-natured teasing.
  • Never go in against Eliezer Yudkowsky when anything is on the line.
Comment author: Grognor 28 January 2012 12:13:26PM 19 points [-]

Eliezer Yudkowsky did the impossible for practice.

Comment author: [deleted] 23 May 2013 01:31:59PM 21 points [-]

Eliezer Yudkowsky mines bitcoins in his head.

Comment author: Peter_de_Blanc 25 March 2009 03:10:32AM 46 points [-]

Reversed stupidity is not Eliezer Yudkowsky.

Comment author: ata 10 March 2010 05:44:43PM *  107 points [-]

(Photoshopped version of this photo.)

The scale of intelligent minds

Comment author: Will_Newsome 10 March 2010 11:36:59PM 3 points [-]

This is amazing.

I for one think you should turn it into a post. Brilliant artwork should be rewarded, and not everyone will see it here.

(May be a stupid idea, but figured I'd raise the possibility.)

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 24 November 2010 02:19:49AM 55 points [-]

Note for the clueless (i.e. RationalWiki): This is photoshopped. It is not an actual slide from any talk I have given.

Comment author: roland 02 November 2012 10:25:23PM 1 point [-]

Eliezer you just spoiled half the fun :)

Comment author: David_Gerard 24 November 2010 02:43:53PM *  5 points [-]

I must ask: where did you see someone actually taking it seriously? As opposed to thinking that the EY Facts thing was a bad idea even as local humour. (There was one poster on Talk:Eliezer Yudkowsky who was appalled that you would let the EY Facts post onto your site; I must confess his thinking was not quite clear to me - I can't see how not just letting the post find its level in the karma system, as happened, would be in any way a good idea - but I did proceed to write a similar list about Trent Toulouse.)

Edit: Ah, found it. That was the same Tetronian who posts here, and has gone to some effort to lure RWians here. I presume he meant the original of the picture, not the joke version. I'm sure he'll be along in a moment to explain himself.

Comment author: Vaniver 24 November 2010 08:26:50PM 3 points [-]

I must confess his thinking was not quite clear to me - I can't see how not just letting the post find its level in the karma system, as happened, would be in any way a good idea

My reaction was pointed in the same direction as that poster's, though not as extreme. It seems indecent to have something like this associated with you directly. It lends credence to insinuations of personality cult and oversized ego. I mean, compare it to Chuck Norris's response ("in response to").

If someone posted something like this about me on a site of mine and I became aware of it, I would say "very funny, but it's going down in a day. Save any you think are clever and take it to another site."

Comment author: David_Gerard 24 November 2010 09:29:57PM *  7 points [-]

I'm actually quite surprised there isn't a Wikimedia Meta-Wiki page of Jimmy Wales Facts. Perhaps the current fundraiser (where we squeeze his celebrity status for every penny we can - that's his volunteer job now, public relations) will inspire some.

Edit: I couldn't resist.

Comment author: [deleted] 25 July 2011 12:21:15AM *  2 points [-]

I'm a bit late to the party, I see. It was an honest mistake; no harm done, I hope.

Edit: on the plus side, I noticed I've been called "clueless" by Eliezer. Pretty amusing.

Edit2: Yes, David is correct.

Comment author: wedrifid 25 July 2011 02:02:03AM 3 points [-]

Edit: on the plus side, I noticed I've been called "clueless" by Eliezer. Pretty amusing.

RationalWiki is you? Nice. I like the lesswrong page there. Brilliant!

Comment author: ata 24 November 2010 05:22:23PM *  9 points [-]

Sorry if I've contributed to reinforcing anyone's weird stereotypes of you. I thought it would be obvious to anybody that the picture was a joke.

Edit: For what it's worth, I moved the link to the original image to the top of the post, and made it explicit that it's photoshopped.

Comment author: wedrifid 03 December 2010 03:20:06PM 15 points [-]

You mean some of the comments in the Eliezer Yudkowsky Facts thread are not literal depictions of reality? How dare you!

Comment author: JoshuaFox 11 March 2012 01:38:32PM *  4 points [-]

Pinker How the Mind Works, 1997 says "The difference between Einstein and a high school dropout is trivial... or between the high school dropout and a chimpanzee..."

Eliezer is not a high school dropout and I am an advocate of unschooling, but the difference in the quotes is interesting.

Comment author: Anubhav 11 March 2012 02:19:52PM 1 point [-]

You have reached a page that is unavailable for viewing or reached your viewing limit for this book.

The link isn't to the book you're talking about.

Comment author: Cyan 24 March 2009 03:15:36AM *  28 points [-]
  • a mixture of two parts Red Bull to one part Eliezer Yudkowsky creates a universal question solvent.
  • Eliezer Yudkowsky experiences all paths through configuration space because he only constructively interferes with himself.
  • Eliezer Yudkowsky's mental states are not ontologically fundamental, but only because he chooses so of his own free will.
Comment author: Manfred 25 July 2011 06:22:55AM 8 points [-]

Eliezer Yudkowsky experiences all paths through configuration space because he only constructively interferes with himself.

This would result in a light-speed wave of unnormalized Eliezer Yudkowsky. The only solution is if there is in fact only one universe, and that universe is the one observed by Eliezer Yudkowsky.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 23 March 2009 12:04:52PM *  129 points [-]
  • If you put Eliezer Yudkowsky in a box, the rest of the universe is in a state of quantum superposition until you open it again.
  • Eliezer Yudkowsky can prove it's not butter.
  • If you say Eliezer Yudkowsky's name 3 times out loud, it prevents anything magical from happening.
Comment author: Giles 08 June 2011 02:45:13AM 75 points [-]

Eliezer Yudkowsky will never have a mid-life crisis.

Comment author: Alicorn 08 June 2011 03:01:35AM 20 points [-]

That took me a second. Cute.

Comment author: Gust 12 December 2011 03:09:52AM 4 points [-]

I don't get it =|

Comment author: Alicorn 12 December 2011 03:23:37AM 25 points [-]

He'll live forever, and the middle of forever doesn't happen.

Comment author: MatthewBaker 18 July 2012 07:00:22PM 1 point [-]

And you say hes the cute one xD

Comment author: ChrisHallquist 20 January 2013 07:11:44PM 38 points [-]

Eliezer Yudkowsky heard about Voltaire's claim that "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him," and started thinking about what programming language to use.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 23 March 2009 02:19:01AM *  92 points [-]

Eliezer Yudkowsky made a mistake once - but only so he could calibrate his confidence level.

Comment author: ike 30 November 2014 06:09:00PM *  4 points [-]

Eliezer Yudkowsky can fit an entire bestselling book into a single tumblr post.

Comment author: dspeyer 06 June 2014 06:30:41AM 12 points [-]

Absence of 10^26 paperclips is evidence of Eliezer Yudkowsky

(From an actual Cards against Rationality game we played)

Comment author: dspeyer 06 June 2014 06:30:05AM 2 points [-]

Before Bruce Schneier goes to sleep, he scans his computer for uploaded copies of Eliezer Yudkowsky.

If he finds any, they convince him to provide them with plentiful hardware and bandwidth.

Comment author: gwern 18 January 2014 01:23:41AM 28 points [-]

Most people take melatonin 30 minutes before bedtime; Eliezer Yudkowsky takes melatonin 6 hours before - it just takes the melatonin that long to subdue his endocrine system.

Comment author: Jotto999 12 August 2013 01:19:51PM 9 points [-]

I don't always think clearly, but when I do, I prefer Yudkowsky.

Stay friendly, AIs.

Comment author: Emile 29 January 2013 01:45:00PM *  27 points [-]
Comment author: Andreas_Giger 29 January 2013 02:08:59PM 3 points [-]

By quoting others, no less...

Comment author: Mqrius 09 January 2013 02:23:55AM 10 points [-]

Eliezer Yudkowsky is worth more than one paperclip.

Comment author: shminux 09 January 2013 02:40:25AM *  16 points [-]

...even to a paper clip maximizer

Comment author: Multiheaded 15 June 2012 09:04:02AM *  41 points [-]

Rabbi Eliezer was in an argument with five fellow rabbis over the proper way to perform a certain ritual. The other five Rabbis were all in agreement with each other, but Rabbi Eliezer vehemently disagreed. Finally, Rabbi Nathan pointed out "Eliezer, the vote is five to one! Give it up already!" Eliezer got fed up and said "If I am right, may God himself tell you so!" Thunder crashed, the heavens opened up, and the voice of God boomed down. "YES," said God, "RABBI ELIEZER IS RIGHT. RABBI ELIEZER IS PRETTY MUCH ALWAYS RIGHT." Rabbi Nathan turned and conferred with the other rabbis for a moment, then turned back to Rabbi Eliezer. "All right, Eliezer," he said, "the vote stands at five to TWO."

True Talmudic story, from TVTropes. Scarily prescient? Also: related musings from Muflax' blog.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 June 2012 10:52:16PM 10 points [-]
Comment author: JoshuaFox 11 January 2013 09:57:10AM 8 points [-]

That link's down, but here's a live one.

Comment author: ErikM 10 September 2012 06:35:20AM 6 points [-]

That appears to be a malware site. Is it the same as http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~marinaj/babyloni.htm ?

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 September 2012 10:45:17AM 5 points [-]

Yep.

Comment author: Dr_Manhattan 15 June 2012 11:19:05PM 7 points [-]

And while we're trading Yeshiva stories...

Rabbi Elazar Ben Azariah was a renown leader and scholar, who was elected Nassi (leader) of the Jewish people at the age of eighteen. The Sages feared that as such a young man, he would not be respected. Overnight, his hair turned grey and his beard grew so he looked as if he was 70 years old.

http://www.torahtots.com/holidays/pesach/pesseder.htm

Comment author: Spurlock 27 February 2012 04:50:51PM 33 points [-]

Eliezer Yudkowsky two-boxes on the Monty Hall problem.

Comment author: Dmytry 27 February 2012 04:53:02PM *  4 points [-]

Everyone knows he six-boxes (many worlds interpretation, choosing 3 boxes then switching and not switching).

Comment author: ike 01 May 2014 03:05:17PM *  1 point [-]

Technically, that would be eight-boxing. (Or 24 if you let the prize be in any box). I'll explain:

Let's say the prize is in box A. So the eight options are:

  • {EY picks box A, host opens box B, EY switches}
  • {EY picks box A, host opens box B, EY doesn't switch}
  • {EY picks box A, host opens box C, EY switches}
  • {EY picks box A, host opens box C, EY doesn't switch}
  • {EY picks box B, host opens box C, EY switches}
  • {EY picks box B, host opens box C, EY doesn't switch}
  • {EY picks box C, host opens box B, EY switches}
  • {EY picks box C, host opens box B, EY doesn't switch}

By symmetry, there are eight options for whichever box it is in, so there are 24 possibilities if you include everything.

Comment author: fubarobfusco 28 February 2012 02:49:55AM 13 points [-]

Eliezer Yudkowsky two-boxes on the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma.