-> ''"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."''

Eliezer Shlomo Yudkowsky (born September 11, 1979) is an American writer and ArtificialIntelligence researcher.

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.

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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!! Tropes describing Yudkowsky's work:

* AuthorTract: His theories and [[AuthorAvatar avatars]] crop up a fair bit in his fictional works.
* LivingForeverIsAwesome: Eliezer's hatred of death appears as a recurring theme in his stories.
* 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]].
* 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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