"And then Harry Potter had launched in to a speech that was inspiring, yet vague. A speech to the effect that Fred and George and Lee had tremendous potential if they could just learn to be weirder. To..."
- Eliezer Yudkowsky
"Without thinking about it at all, Harry stepped in front of Hermione.There was an intake of breath from behind him, and then a moment later Hermione brushed past and stepped in front of him. "Run, Har..."
"But it is cute. It's such a boy thing to do.Drop dead.Aw, you say the most romantic things."
"Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge."
"Since the beginningnot one unusual thinghas ever happened."
"Because the way people are built, Hermione, the way people are built to feel inside -" Harry put a hand over his own heart, in the anatomically correct position, then paused and moved his hand up to p..."
"People form close friendships by knowing private things about each other, and the reason most people don't make close friends is because they're too embarrassed to share anything really important abou..."
"Wow," the empty air finally said. "Wow. That puts a pretty different perspective on things, I have to say. I'm going to remember this the next time I feel an impulse to blame myself for something. Nev..."
"The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else."
"What people really believe doesn't feel like a BELIEF, it feels like the way the world IS."