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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Final Words
Shut Up and Do the Impossible!
Make an Extraordinary Effort
On Doing the Impossible
Use the Try Harder, Luke
Trying to Try
Tsuyoku vs. the Egalitarian Instinct
Tsuyoki Naritai! (I Want to Become Stronger)
My Bayesian Enlightenment
Beyond the Reach of God
The Magnitude of His Own Folly
The Level Above Mine
My Naturalistic Awakening
Fighting a Rearguard Action Against the Truth
That Tiny Note of Discord
The Sheer Folly of Callow Youth
A Prodigy of Refutation
Raised in Technophilia
My Best and Worst Mistake