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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]]'', ''[[FanficRecs/MegaCrossover 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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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]]'', ''[[FanficRecs/MegaCrossover The ''The Finale of the Ultimate Meta Mega Crossover]]'', 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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Author of ''Literature/ThreeWorldsCollide'' and ''FanFic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality'', the shorter works ''[[{{FanficRecs/HaruhiSuzumiya}} Trust in God/The Riddle of Kyon]]'' and ''[[FanficRecs/MegaCrossover 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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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]]'' and Kyon]]'', ''[[FanficRecs/MegaCrossover 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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* ReferenceOverdosed: Eliezer loves his {{ShoutOut}}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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* ReferenceOverdosed: Eliezer loves his {{ShoutOut}}s.{{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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His day job is with the [[http://intelligence.org/ Machine Intelligence Research Institute]], specifically working on how to make an {{AI}} 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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His day job is with the [[http://intelligence.org/ Machine Intelligence Research Institute]], specifically working on how to make an {{AI}} 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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Eliezer Shlomo Yudkowsky (born September 11, 1979) is an American writer and ArtificialIntelligence researcher.


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of death appears as a recurring theme in his stories.

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* LivingForeverIsAwesome: Eliezer's hatred of death appears as a recurring theme in his stories.
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* GenreAdultery: Almost all of his works, whether [[FanFic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality fanfic]] or [[Literature/ThreeWorldsCollide original]], are highly philosophical {{Author Tract}}s. And then there's ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5731071/1/Peggy_Susie Peggy Susie]]'', which is merely a [[spoiler: ''Calvin and Hobbes'' fic]] and parody of ''Film/TheTerminator''... with no philosophical elements whatsoever.
* LivingForeverIsAwesome: Eliezer's hatred of death appears as a recurring theme in his stories.

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* GenreAdultery: Almost all of his works, whether [[FanFic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality fanfic]] or [[Literature/ThreeWorldsCollide original]], are highly philosophical {{Author Tract}}s. And then there's ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5731071/1/Peggy_Susie Peggy Susie]]'', which is merely a [[spoiler: ''Calvin and Hobbes'' fic]] and parody of ''Film/TheTerminator''... with no philosophical elements whatsoever.
* LivingForeverIsAwesome: Eliezer's hatred
of death appears as a recurring theme in his stories.

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* GeniusBonus / ViewersAreGeniuses: [[invoked]] Some of the references to other fiction (see ReferenceOverdosed, below) are to rather obscure works or to concepts in university-level mathematics, science, and/or philosophy.

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