1 | -> ''"Singularitarians are the {{munchkin}}s of the real world. We just ignore all the usual dungeons and head straight for the cycle of infinite wish spells."'' |
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3 | Eliezer Shlomo Yudkowsky (born September 11, 1979) is an American writer and ArtificialIntelligence researcher. |
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5 | Author of ''Literature/ThreeWorldsCollide'' and ''FanFic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality'', coauthor of ''Roleplay/ProjectLawful'', and author of the shorter works ''[[{{FanficRecs/HaruhiSuzumiya}} Trust in God/The Riddle of Kyon]]'', ''The Finale of the Ultimate Meta Mega Crossover'', and [[http://yudkowsky.net/other/fiction various other fiction]]. Helped found and is probably the most prolific poster to the blog/discussion site ''Blog/LessWrong'', and is currently writing a book on rationality. |
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7 | His day job is with the [[http://intelligence.org/ Machine Intelligence Research Institute]], specifically working on how to make an ArtificialIntelligence that ''won't'' just [[http://singinst.org/riskintro/index.html kill us all accidentally]], and make [[AIIsACrapshoot AI less of a crapshoot]]. |
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10 | !! Tropes describing Yudkowsky's work: |
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12 | * AuthorTract: His theories and [[AuthorAvatar avatars]] crop up a fair bit in his fictional works. |
13 | * LivingForeverIsAwesome: Eliezer's hatred of death appears as a recurring theme in his stories. |
14 | * MindScrewdriver: "The Finale of the Ultimate Meta Mega Crossover" is this for the ending of ''Literature/PermutationCity'' by Creator/GregEgan. On the other hand, [[ViewersAreGeniuses the explanation involves quite a bit of theoretical computer science]]. |
15 | * ReferenceOverdosed: Eliezer loves his {{Shout Out}}s. ''FanFic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality'' has [[ShoutOut/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality at least one in most chapters]], while the first half of "The Finale of the Ultimate Meta Mega Crossover" has several per paragraph. Even ''Literature/ThreeWorldsCollide'' includes VisualNovel/FateStayNight in a list of "classic" literature. |
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