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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- Episodes
- 342
- Years Active
- 2015
Morality as Fixed Computation
Could Anything Be Right
Changing Your Metaethics
What Would You Do Without Morality
2 Place and 1 Place Words
Sorting Pebbles into Correct Heaps
Created Already In Motion
No Universally Compelling Arguments
My Kind of Reflection
Where Recursive Justification Hits Bottom
The Design Space of Minds-in-General
Dreams of AI Design
Detached Lever Fallacy
Fake Utility Functions
Fake Morality
Fake Selfishness
Not for the Sake of Happiness (Alone)
Interlude - A Technical Explanation of Technical