Rationality: From AI to Zombies
What does it actually mean to be rational? The kind of rationality where you make good decisions, even when it's hard; where you reason well, even in the face of massive uncertainty; where you recognize and make full use of your fuzzy intuitions and emotions, rather than trying to discard them. In Rationality: From AI to Zombies, Eliezer Yudkowsky explains the science underlying human irrationality with a mix of fables, argumentative essays, and personal vignettes. These eye-opening accounts of how the mind works (and how, all too often, it doesn't) are then put to the test through some genuinely difficult puzzles: questions in computer science about the future of artificial intelligence (AI), questions in physics about the relationship between the quantum and classical worlds, questions in philosophy about the metaphysics of zombies and the nature of morality, and many more.
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Go Forth and Create the Art!
The Sin of Underconfidence
Practical Advice Backed by Deep Theories
Beware of Other-Optimizing
Bayesians vs. Barbarians
Incremental Progress and the Valley
Purchase Fuzzies and Utilons Separately
Money: The Unit of Caring
Helpless Individuals
Rationality: Common Interest of Many Causes
Church vs. Taskforce
Can Humanism Match Religions Output?
Your Price for Joining
Tolerate Tolerance
Why Our Kind Can't Cooperate
Three Levels of Rationality Verification
Schools Proliferating Without Evidence
Epistemic Visciousness
A Sense That More Is Possible