- 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.
This last one actually works!
(Photoshopped version of this photo.)
Note for the clueless (i.e. RationalWiki): This is photoshopped. It is not an actual slide from any talk I have given.
Here is a real photo if you need one ;-)
I've been trying to decide for a while now whether I believe you meant "e.g." I'm still not sure.
RationalWiki was the only place I saw this mistake made, so the i.e. seemed deserved to me.
It looks like it turned awful since I've read it the last time:
The most fatal mistake of the entry in its current form seems to be that it does lump together all of Less Wrong and therefore does stereotype its members. So far this still seems to be a community blog with differing opinions. I got a Karma score of over 1700 and I have been criticizing the SIAI and Yudkowsky (in a fairly poor way).
I hope you people are reading this. I don't see why you draw a line between you and Less Wrong. This place is not an invite-only party.
I don't think this is the case anymore. You can easily get Karma by criticizing him and the SIAI. Most of all new posts are not written by him anymore either.
Nah!
... (read more)I know, I loved that quote. I just couldn't work out why it was presented as a bad thing.
Descartes is maybe the single best example of motivated cognition in the history of Western thought. Though interestingly, there are some theories that he was secretly an atheist.
I assume their point has something to do with those three being rationalists in the traditional sense... but I don't think Rational Wiki is using the word in the traditional sense either. Would Descartes have been allowed to edit an entry on souls?
Do you mean Spinoza or Leibniz given their knowledge base and upbringing or the same person with a modern environment? I know everything Leibniz knew and a lot more besides. But I suspect that if the same individual grew up in a modern family environment similar to my own he would have accomplished a lot more than I have at the same age.
Sorry, I thought the notion was clear that one would be talking about same genetics but different environment. Illusion of transparency and all that. Explicit formulation: if one took a fertilized egg with Leibniz's genetic material and raised in an American middle class family with high emphasis on intellectual success, I'm pretty sure he would have by the time he got to my age have accomplished more than I have. Does that make the meaning clear?
Wedrifid_2010 was not assigning a status ranking or even an evaluation of overall intellectual merit or potential. For that matter predicting expected voting patterns is a far different thing than assigning a ranking. People with excessive confidence in habitual thinking patterns that are wrong or obsolete will be downvoted into oblivion where the average person is not, even if the former is more intelligent or more intellectually impressive overall.
I also have little doubt that any of those three would be capable of recovering from their initial day or three of spiraling downvotes assuming they were willing to ignore their egos, do some heavy reading of the sequences and generally spend some time catching up on modern thought. But for as long as those individuals were writing similar material to that which identifies them they would be downvoted by lesswrong_2010. Possibly even by lesswrong_now too.
I think there is a fair chance the many world's interpretation is wrong but anyone who criticizes it by defending the Copenhagen 'interpretation' has no idea what they're talking about.
Irony.
Xixidu, you should also read the material before trying to defend it.
The problem isn't that you asserted something about MWI -- I'm not discussing the MWI itself here.
It's rather that you defended something before you knew what it was that you were defending, and attacked people on their knowledge of the facts before you knew what the facts actually were.
Then once you got more informed about it, you immediately changed the form of the defense while maintaining the same judgment. (Previously it was "Bad critics who falsely claim Eliezer has judged MWI to be correct" now it's "Bad critics who correctly claim Eliezer has judged MWI to be correct, but they badly don't share that conclusion")
This all is evidence (not proof, mind you) of strong bias.
Ofcourse you may have legitimately changed your mind about MWI, and legimitately moved from a wrongful criticism of the critics on their knowledge of facts to a rightful criticism of their judgment.
In layman's terms (to the best of my understanding), the proof is:
Copenhagen interpretation is "there is wave propagation and then collapse" and thus requires a description of how collapse happens. MWI is "there is wave propagation", and thus has fewer rules, and thus is simpler (in that sense).
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.
You mean some of the comments in the Eliezer Yudkowsky Facts thread are not literal depictions of reality? How dare you!
Yep, it turns out that Eliezer is not literally the smartest, most powerful, most compassionate being in the universe. A bit of a letdown, isn't it? I know a lot of people expected better of him.
No sane person would proclaim something like that. If one does not know the context and one doesn't know who Eliezer Yudkowsky is one should however conclude that it is reasonable to assume that the slide was not meant to be taken seriously (e.g. is a joke).
Extremely exaggerated manipulations are in my opinion no deception, just fun.
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.
I really wouldn't bother. Anyone who doesn't like these things won't be mollified.
It's good, but we should retain the top level post for things that are truly important.
Thanks! Glad people like it, but I'll have to agree with Lucas — I prefer top-level posts to be on-topic, in-depth, and interesting (or at least two of those), and as I expect others feel the same way, I don't want a more worthy post to be pushed off the bottom of the list for the sake of a funny picture.
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.
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.
Transhuman AIs theorize that if they could create Eliezer Yudkowsky, it would lead to an "intelligence explosion".
... 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.
Where's the punch line?
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.
Eliezer Yudkowsky made a mistake once - but only so he could calibrate his confidence level.
After Eliezer Yudkowsky was conceived, he recursively self-improved to personhood in mere weeks and then talked his way out of the womb.
Eliezer Yudkowsky will never have a mid-life crisis.
That took me a second. Cute.
He'll live forever, and the middle of forever doesn't happen.
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.
True Talmudic story, from TVTropes. Scarily prescient? Also: related musings from Muflax' blog.
Original: http://www.senderberl.com/jewish/trial.htm
That link's down, but here's a live one.
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
Eliezer two-boxes on Newcomb's problem, and both boxes contain money.
Eliezer Yudkowsky holds the honorary title of Duke Newcomb.
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.
Eliezer three-boxes on Newcomb's problem.
Eliezer Omegas on Newcomb's problem.
Eliezer Yudkowsky can consistently assert the sentence "Eliezer Yudkowsky cannot consistently assert this sentence."
Eliezer Yudkowsky took his glasses off once. Now he calls it the certainty principle.
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.
Teachers try to guess Eliezer Yudkowsky's password.
Eliezer Yudkowsky's map is more accurate than the territory.
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.
Eliezer Yudkowsky's map IS the territory.
I'd prefer "Eliezer Yudkowsky can fold up the territory and put it in his pocket."
Mmhmm... Borges time!
P-zombies gain qualia after being in the presence of Eliezer Yudkowsky.
Reversed stupidity is not Eliezer Yudkowsky.
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.
I don't understand this thread.
I believe this relates to what has been called "[one's] strength as a rationalist".
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.
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.
Eliezer Yudkowsky two-boxes on the Monty Hall problem.
Eliezer Yudkowsky two-boxes on the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma.
Eliezer Yudkowsky can escape an AI box while wearing a straight jacket and submerged in a shark tank.
Eliezer Yudkowsky knows exactly how best to respond to this thread; he's just left it as homework for us.
Eliezer Yudkowsky updates reality to fit his priors.
Eliezer Yudkowsky can make Chuck Norris shave his beard off by using text-only communication
(stolen from here)
I think Less Wrong is a pretty cool guy. eh writes Hary Potter fanfic and doesnt afraid of acausal blackmails.
Some people can perform surgery to save kittens. Eliezer Yudkowsky can perform counterfactual surgery to save kittens before they're even in danger.
Kinda irrelevant, but this should be "Eliezer ni naritai", since omitting "ni" is only for some rare Japanese adjectives, rite?
Eliezer Yudkowsky mines bitcoins in his head.
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.
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.
• 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.
Eliezer Yudkowsky did the impossible for practice.
Eliezer Yudkowsky's keyboard only has two keys: 1 and 0.
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 ... (read more)
Snow is white if and only if that's what Eliezer Yudkowsky wants to believe.
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.
What?! Blasphemy!
No, it's also mathematically true. He won't change what he wants to believe.
The speed of light used to be much lower before Eliezer Yudkowsky optimized the laws of physics.
Unlike Frodo, Eliezer Yudkowsky had no trouble throwing the Ring into the fires of Mount Foom.
If giants have been able to see further than others, it is because they have stood on the shoulders of Eliezer Yudkowsky.
Absence of 10^26 paperclips is evidence of Eliezer Yudkowsky
(From an actual Cards against Rationality game we played)
Eliezer's approval makes actions tautologically non-abusive.
Eliezer Yudkowsky once explained:
Experiments conducted near the building in question determined the local speed of sound to be 6 meters per second.
(Hat Tip)
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.
This isn't bad, but I think it can be better. Here's my try:
The Busy Beaver function was created to quantify Eliezer Yudkowsky 's IQ.
I don't always think clearly, but when I do, I prefer Yudkowsky.
Stay friendly, AIs.
When Eliezer Yudkowsky divides by zero, he gets a singularity.
Maybe it's time to start.
Eliezer Yudkowsky's Patronus is Harry Potter.
Eliezer Yudkowsky is his own Patronus.
Eliezer Yudkowsky is worth more than one paperclip.
...even to a paper clip maximizer
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)
Eliezer Yudkowsky can slay Omega with two suicide rocks and a sling.
Eliezer Yudkowsky can fit an entire bestselling book into a single tumblr post.
If you see Eliezer Yudkowsky on the road, do not kill him.
If you see Eliezer Yudkowsky on the road, Pascal's-mug him.
If you meet the Eliezer on the road, cryopreserve it!
Eliezer Yudkowsky is nine geniuses working together in a basement
Eliezer Yudkowski can solve NP complete problems in polynomial time.
Eliezer Yudkowski can solve EXPTIME-complete problems in polynomial time.
- 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 t
... (read more)At the age of eight, Eliezer Yudkowsky built a fully functional AGI out of LEGO. It's still fooming, just very, very slowly.
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.
All problems can be solved with Bayesian logic and expected utility. "Bayesian logic" and "expected utility" are the names of Eliezer Yudkowsky's fists.
I feel this should not be in featured posts, as amusing as it was at the time
If you want to test if a person is EY you clone him first, and afterwards if the two are always in agreement with each other you know they must be EY.
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.
Eliezer Yudkowsky once entered an empty newcomb's box simply so he can get out when the box was opened.
Eliezer Yudkowsky painted "The Scream" with paperclips:
A russian pharmacological company was trying to make a drug against stupidity with the name of "EliminateStupodsky", the result was Eliezer Yudkowsky.
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."
Eliezer Yudkowsky only drinks from Klein Bottles.
Eliezer Yudkowsky is a 1001 year old vampire, that grows old faster than you.
You probably live in a simulation, unless you know Eliezer Yudkowsky in real life.
I would expect Eliezer Yudkowsky to be slightly more likely to simulate people he does know in real life.
There is no chin behind Eliezer Yudkowsky's beard. There is only another brain.
-Eliezer Yudkowsky trims his beard using Solmonoff Induction.
-Eliezer Yudkowsky, and only Eliezer Yudkowsky, possesses quantum immortality.
-Eliezer Yudkowsky once persuaded a superintelligence to stay inside of its box.
If he finds any, they convince him to provide them with plentiful hardware and bandwidth.
Eliezer Yudkowsky doesn't have a chin, underneath his beard is another brain.
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.
Turing machines are not Eliezer-complete.
Eliezer Yudkowsky wins every Dollar Auction.
Your model of Eliezer Yudkowsky is faster than you at precommitting to not swerving (h/t Jessica Taylor, whose tweet I can't find again).
I can't believe that this one hasn't been done before:
Unless you are Eliezer Yudkowsky, there are 3 things that are certain in life: death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics.
This one doesn't sound particularly EY-related to me; it might as well be Chuck Norris.
It's an AI-Box joke.
Posts like this reinforce the suspicion that LessWrong is a personality cult.
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.
I think they're mostly about humour, but there's a non-negligible part of “yay Eliezer Yudkowsky!” thrown in.
Oh my God this is such a great thread.
Existence came to be when Eliezer Yudkowsky got tired of contemplating nothingness.
If Michelson and Morley had lived A.Y., they would have found that the speed of light was relative to Eliezer Yudkowsky.
• Everett branches where Eliezer Yudkowsky wasn’t born have been deprecated. (Counterfactually optimizing for them is discouraged.)
There exists a polynomial time reduction from SAT to the problem of asking Eliezer Yudkowsky whether a formula is satisfiable. It only remains to be proved that he is not using any hyper-computable processes.
Eliezer Yudkowsky is a superstimulus for perfection.
There is no "time", just events Eliezer Yudkowsky has felt like allowing.
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)
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.
I agree as well.
ObEliezerFact: Eliezer Yudkowsky didn't run away from grade school... grade school ran away from Eliezer Yudkowsky.
Eliezer Yudkowsky is AlphaGo.
Eliezer Yudkowsky can infer bayesian network structures with n nodes using only n² data points.
Eliezer Yudkowsky already knows how to shot web.
It is a well-known fact among SIAI folk that Eliezer Yudkowsky regularly puts in 60 hour work days.
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!(The scale of intelligent minds)[http://imgur.com/yvk8A.jpg]
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An Eliezer Yudkowsky article a day keeps irrationality away.
Questioin: How do you kill Eliezer?
Answer: By putting him in "quotation marks".
If deities do not exist, it would be necessary for Eliezer to invent them
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.
Eliezer Yudkowsky wears goggles against dust specks.
Eliezer Yudkowsky uses Solomonoff induction to decide on correct priors of hypotheses.
It should've been called "Notes for a Proposed Hagiography", lol.
01.04.12
States of the world are casually entangled with Eliezer Yudkowsky's brain.
Eliezer Yudkowsky is above the law; he can escape from 3 out of 5 jails in 2 hours using Morse code.
When Eliezer Yudkowsky stares a basilisk in the eyes, the basilisk is destroyed.