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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Extensions and Intensions
Words as Hidden Inferences
The Parable of Hemlock
The Parable of the Dagger
Lost Purposes
Anthropomorphic Optimism
The Hidden Complexity of Wishes
Leaky Generalizations
Terminal Values and Instrumental Values
Artificial Addition
Ghosts in the Machine
Optimization and the Intelligence Explosion
Humans in Funny Suits
Belief in Intelligence
Thou Art Godshatter
Superstimuli and the Collapse of Western Civilization
An Especially Elegant Evolutionary Psychology Experiment
Evolutionary Psychology