The Parable of the Dagger

This is an animation of The Parable of the Dagger by Eliezer Yudkowsky. You can read the original here: It’s the beginning of a series of essays about language. We highly recommend them, and you can read them here: You can read many more essays and stories by Eliezer Yudkowsky at ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀PATREON, MEMBERSHIP, KO-FI▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ 🟠 Patreon: 🔵 Channel membership: 🟤 Ko-fi, for one-time and recurring donations: ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀SOCIAL & DISCORD▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ Discord: Reddit: Twitter: ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀PATRONS & MEMBERS▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ Many thanks to our supporters on Patreon and the channel members :3 Nathan Metzger Monadologist Glenn Tarigan NMS James Babcock Colin Ricardo Long Hoang Tor Barstad Gayman Crothers Stuart Alldritt AGI275 Ville Ikäläinen Chris Painter Juan Benet James Dylan Mavrides DJ Peach Cobbler Falcon Scientist Jeff Christian Loomis Tomarty Edward Yu Ahmed Elsayyad Chad M Jones Emmanuel Fredenrich Honyopenyoko Neal Strobl bparro Danealor Craig Falls Aaron Camacho Vincent Weisser Alex Hall Ivan Bachcin Vincent Söderberg joe39504589 indexhtml Klemen Slavic Scott Alexander noggieB Dawson John Slape Dang Griffith Gabriel Ledung Jeroen De Dauw Craig Ludington Jacob Van Buren Superslowmojoe Nicholas Kees Dupuis Michael Zimmermann Nathan Fish Ryouta Takehiko Nathan Bleys Goodson Ducky Bryan Egan Matt Parlmer Tim Duffy rictic Mark Gongloff marverati Luke Freeman Dan Wahl Rey Carroll Harold Godsoe William Clelland ronvil AWyattLife codeadict Lazy Scholar Torstein Haldorsen Alex G Supreme Reader MichaÅ‚ ZieliÅ„ski The CEO רם רינגל ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀CREDITS▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ Animation director: Evan Streb Writer: Eliezer Yudkowsky Producer: :3 Production Managers: Grey Colson Jay McMichen Line Producer: Kristy Steffens Quality Assurance Lead: Lara Robinowitz Animation: Grey Colson Gabriel Diaz Jay McMichen Skylar O’Brien Patrick O’Callaghan Vaughn Oeth Lara Robinowitz Background Art: Olivia Wang Compositing: Patrick O’ Callaghan Voices: Robert Miles - Narrator Krystle Futrell - The Jester Lucas Schuneman - King VO Editing: Tony Di Piazza Sound Design and Music: Epic Mountain