Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkness and force it to face them.
Eliezer YudkowskyTags: inspiration courage goodness bravery good-and-evil darkness-and-light
...if you're unhappy whenever other people don't picture you exactly the same way you picture yourself, that's already dooming yourself to always be unhappy. No one ever thinks of us just the same way we think of ourselves.
Eliezer YudkowskyTrying and getting hurt can't possibly be worse for you than being... stuck.
Eliezer YudkowskyTags: courage effort taking-chances
...there's something in science like the shine of the Patronus Charm, driving back all sorts of darkness and madness...
Eliezer YudkowskyTags: science
Not every change is an improvement but every improvement is a change; you can't do anything BETTER unless you can manage to do it DIFFERENTLY, you've got to let yourself do better than other people!
Eliezer YudkowskyTags: inspirational change improvements
Existential depression has always annoyed me; it is one of the world's most pointless forms of suffering.
Eliezer YudkowskyTags: morality
To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.
Eliezer YudkowskyTags: humility rationality modesty rationalism
A true rationalist ought to be effective in the real world.
Eliezer YudkowskyTags: cynicism rationality rationalism
Doing worse with more knowledge means you are doing something very wrong.
Eliezer YudkowskyTags: knowledge rationality rationalism
It is time," said the Lord Pilot, "to see this calamity to its end." Spoken in Archaic English: the words uttered by Thomas Clarkson in 1785, at the beginning of the end of slavery. "I have set my will against this disaster; I will break it, or it will break me." Ira Howard in 2014. "I will not share my universe with this shadow," and that was the Lord Pilot, in an anger hotter than the nova's ashes. "Help me if you will, or step aside if you lack decisiveness; but do not make yourself my obstacle, or I will burn you down, and any that stand with you -
Eliezer YudkowskyTags: inspirational
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