When you are older, you will learn, that the first and foremost thing which the ordinary person does is nothing.

Chapter 73: SA, The Sacred and the Mundane, Pt 8

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Eliezer Shlomo Yudkowsky (born September 11, 1979) is an American decision theorist and artificial intelligence (AI) theorist and writer best known for popularizing the idea of friendly artificial intelligence.

He is a co-founder and research fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), a private research nonprofit based in Berkeley, California. His work on the prospect of a runaway intelligence explosion was an influence on Nick Bostrom's Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies.