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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Angry Atoms
Hand vs. Fingers
Initiation Ceremony
To Spread Science, Keep it Secret
The Sacred Mundane
Scarcity
Is Humanism A Religion-Substitute
Amazing Breakthrough Day: April 1st
The Beauty of Settled Science
Mundane Magic
If You Demand Magic, Magic Won't Help
Bind Yourself to Reality
Joy in Discovery
Joy in the Merely Real
Savannah Poets
Fake Reductionism
Explaining vs. Explaining Away
Reductionism
Chaotic Inversion