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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Failing to Learn from History
My Wild and Reckless Youth
Lawful Uncertainty
Positive Bias-Look Into the Dark
Say Not "Complexity"
The Futility of Emergence
Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions
Semantic Stopsigns
Fake Causality
Science as Attire
Guessing the Teacher's Password
Fake Explanations
Hindsight Devalues Science
Conservation of Expected Evidence
Absence of Evidence is Evidence of Absence
Your Strength as a Rationalist
Occam's Razor
Einstein's Arrogance
How Much Evidence Does It Take?