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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- Years Active
- 2015
Decoherence is Falsifiable and Testable
Decoherence is Simple
Collapse Postulates
Distinct Configurations
Joint Configurations
Configurations and Amplitude
Quantum Explanations
Psychic Powers
Excluding the Supernatural
Zombies: The Movie
Belief in the Implied Invisible
GAZP vs. GLUT
The Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle
Zombie Responses
Zombies! Zombies?
Reductive References
When Anthropomorphism Became Stupid
Brain Breakthrough! It's Made of Neurons!