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This book is generated from the source material at http://hpmor.com/. Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote this fanfiction and owns the copyright, I only generated it from the site because I wanted to read the latest chapter on my Kindle and the site wasn't updated. It has been generated with the author's permission.

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Eliezer Yudkowsky

Eliezer Yudkowsky is Research Fellow and Director of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, a non–profit research institute dedicated to increasing the likelihood of, and decreasing the time to, a maximally beneficial singularity. He is one of the world's foremost experts on the subject, and frequently speaks on artificial general intelligence (AGI), rationality, and the future.

Stavros Korokithakis

I'm Stavros, I'm a software developer with a fondness for Python and teaching it to people, and for making products people will want to use.

I am Greek, and currently live somewhere between Greece and London.

I founded a company called Stochastic Technologies, it's a software development agency which has also launched a few applications people enjoy.

Chapter 1: A Day of Very Low Probability
Chapter 2: Everything I Believe Is False
Chapter 3: Comparing Reality To Its Alternatives
Chapter 4: The Efficient Market Hypothesis
Chapter 5: The Fundamental Attribution Error
Chapter 6: The Planning Fallacy
Chapter 7: Reciprocation
Chapter 8: Positive Bias
Chapter 9: Title Redacted, Part I
Chapter 10: Self Awareness, Part II
Chapter 11: Omake Files 1, 2, 3
Chapter 12: Impulse Control
Chapter 13: Asking the Wrong Questions
Chapter 14: The Unknown and the Unknowable
Chapter 15: Conscientiousness
Chapter 16: Lateral Thinking
Chapter 17: Locating the Hypothesis
Chapter 18: Dominance Hierarchies
Chapter 19: Delayed Gratification
Chapter 20: Bayes’s Theorem
Chapter 21: Rationalization
Chapter 22: The Scientific Method
Chapter 23: Belief in Belief
Chapter 24: Machiavellian Intelligence Hypothesis
Chapter 25: Hold Off on Proposing Solutions
Chapter 26: Noticing Confusion
Chapter 27: Empathy
Chapter 28: Reductionism
Chapter 29: Egocentric Bias
Chapter 30: Working in Groups, Pt 1
Chapter 31: Working in Groups, Pt 2
Chapter 32: Interlude: Personal Financial Management
Chapter 33: Coordination Problems, Pt 1
Chapter 34: Coordination Problems, Pt 2
Chapter 35: Coordination Problems, Pt 3
Chapter 36: Status Differentials
Chapter 37: Interlude: Crossing the Boundary
Chapter 38: The Cardinal Sin
Chapter 39: Pretending to be Wise, Pt 1
Chapter 40: Pretending to be Wise, Pt 2
Chapter 41: Frontal Override
Chapter 42: Courage
Chapter 43: Humanism, Pt 1
Chapter 44: Humanism, Pt 2
Chapter 45: Humanism, Pt 3
Chapter 46: Humanism, Pt 4
Chapter 47: Personhood Theory
Chapter 48: Utilitarian Priorities
Chapter 49: Prior Information
Chapter 50: Self Centeredness
Chapter 51: Title Redacted, Pt 1
Chapter 52: The Stanford Prison Experiment, Pt 2
Chapter 53: The Stanford Prison Experiment, Pt 3
Chapter 54: The Stanford Prison Experiment, Pt 4
Chapter 55: The Stanford Prison Experiment, Pt 5
Chapter 56: TSPE, Constrained Optimization, Pt 6
Chapter 57: TSPE, Constrained Cognition, Pt 7
Chapter 58: TSPE, Constrained Cognition, Pt 8
Chapter 59: TSPE, Curiosity, Pt 9
Chapter 60: The Stanford Prison Experiment, Pt 10
Chapter 61: TSPE, Secrecy and Openness, Pt 11
Chapter 62: The Stanford Prison Experiment, Final
Chapter 63: TSPE, Aftermaths
Chapter 64: Omake Files 4, Alternate Parallels
Chapter 65: Contagious Lies
Chapter 66: Self Actualization, Pt 1
Chapter 67: Self Actualization, Pt 2
Chapter 68: Self Actualization, Pt 3
Chapter 69: Self Actualization, Pt 4
Chapter 70: Self Actualization, Pt 5
Chapter 71: Self Actualization, Pt 6
Chapter 72: SA, Plausible Deniability, Pt 7
Chapter 73: SA, The Sacred and the Mundane, Pt 8
Chapter 74: SA, Escalation of Conflicts, Pt 9
Chapter 75: Self Actualization Final, Responsibility
Chapter 76: Interlude with the Confessor: Sunk Costs
Chapter 77: SA, Aftermaths: Surface Appearances
Chapter 78: Taboo Tradeoffs Prelude: Cheating
Chapter 79: Taboo Tradeoffs, Pt 1
Chapter 80: Taboo Tradeoffs, Pt 2, The Horns Effect
Chapter 81: Taboo Tradeoffs, Pt 3
Chapter 82: Taboo Tradeoffs, Final
Chapter 83: Taboo Tradeoffs, Aftermath 1
Chapter 84: Taboo Tradeoffs, Aftermath 2
Chapter 85: Taboo Tradeoffs, Aftermath 3, Distance
Chapter 86: Multiple Hypothesis Testing
Chapter 87: Hedonic Awareness
Chapter 88: Time Pressure, Pt 1
Chapter 89: Time Pressure, Pt 2
Chapter 90: Roles, Pt 1
Chapter 91: Roles, Pt 2
Chapter 92: Roles, Pt 3
Chapter 93: Roles, Pt 4
Chapter 94: Roles, Pt 5
Chapter 95: Roles, Pt 6
Chapter 96: Roles, Pt 7
Chapter 97: Roles, Pt 8
Chapter 98: Roles, Final
Chapter 99: Roles, Aftermath
Chapter 100: Precautionary Measures, Pt 1
Chapter 101: Precautionary Measures, Pt 2
Chapter 102: Caring
Chapter 103: Tests
Chapter 104: The Truth, Pt 1, Riddles and Answers
Chapter 105: The Truth, Pt 2
Chapter 106: The Truth, Pt 3
Chapter 107: The Truth, Pt 4
Chapter 108: The Truth, Pt 5, Answers and Riddles
Chapter 109: Reflections
Chapter 110: Reflections, Pt 2
Chapter 111: Failure, Pt 1
Chapter 112: Failure, Pt 2
Chapter 113: Final Exam
Chapter 114: Shut Up and Do The Impossible
Chapter 115: Shut Up and Do The Impossible, Pt 2
Chapter 116: Aftermath, Something to Protect, Pt 0
Chapter 117: Something to Protect: Minerva McGonagall
Chapter 118: Something to Protect: Professor Quirrell
Chapter 119: Something to Protect: Albus Dumbledore
Chapter 120: Something to Protect: Draco Malfoy
Chapter 121: Something to Protect: Severus Snape
Chapter 122: Something to Protect: Hermione Granger

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