Level 1 Intelligent Characters

There’s a scene in the movie The Hobbit II: The Desolation of Smaug which Tolkien did not put into the original book. The movie version goes like this: The thirteen dwarves and Bilbo Baggins have just…

Eleizer Yudkowsky (pronounced Eliza Dushku) is the writer behind Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, and a big contributor at Less Wrong. His general arguments about writing Intelligent Characters are deeply valuable, even if they are deeply challenging.