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“Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you're equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

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“Nonviolent ideals were cheap to hold if you were a scientist, living inside the Protego bubble cast by the police officers and soldiers whose actions you had the luxury to question.”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

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“The next time, Mr. Potter, that you choose to escalate a contest rather than lose, you may lose all the stakes you place on the table.”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

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“Reality is always lawful," said Harry, "even if we don't know the law.”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

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“It wasn't cheating, but it was Science, which was almost as good.”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

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