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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- every day
- Average duration
- 8 minutes
- Episodes
- 342
- Years Active
- 2015
Lonely Dissent
On Expressing Your Concerns
Asch's Conformity Experiment
Two Cult Koans
Guardians of Ayn Rand
Guardians of the Gene Pool
Guardians of the Truth
Every Cause Wants to be a Cult
The Robbers Cave Experiment
When None Dare Urge Restraint
Evaporative Cooling of Group Beliefs
Uncritical Supercriticality
Resist The Happy Death Spiral
Affective Death Spirals
Mere Messiahs
Superhero Bias
The Halo Effect
Unbounded Scales, Huge Jury Awards, and Futurism
Evaluability (and Cheap Holiday Shopping)