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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- Average duration
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- Episodes
- 342
- Years Active
- 2015
The Scales of Justice, the Notebook of Rationality
Policy Debates Should not Appear One-Sided
Politics is the Mind-Killer
Your Rationality Is My Business
0 and 1 Are Not Probabilities
Infinite Certainty
How To Convince Me That 2 + 2 = 3
Absolute Authority
The Fallacy Of Gray
But There's Still A Chance Right?
New Improved Lottery
Lotteries A Waste of Hope
The Third Alternative
The Proper Use Of Humility
Rationality: An Introduction
Interlude - The Simple Truth
Truly Part of You
"Science" as a Curiosity-Stopper
Explain/Worship/Ignore?