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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Einstein's Superpowers
My Childhood Role Model
That Alien Message
Einstein's Speed
Faster Than Science
Changing the Definition of Science
No Safe Defense, Not Even Science
Do Scientists Already Know This Stuff?
Science Isn't Strict Enough
When Science Can't Help
Science Doesn't Trust Your Rationality
The Dilemma: Science or Bayes?
The Failures of Eld Science
Many Worlds, One Best Guess
Thou Art Physics
Where Philosophy Meets Science
If Many Worlds Had Come First
Quantum Non-Realism
Living In Many Worlds