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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Conditional Independence and Naive Bayes
Superexponential Conceptspace and Simple Words
Mutual Information and Density in Thingspace
Entropy and Short Codes
Where to Draw the Boundary?
Arguing "By Definition"
Sneaking in Connotations
Categorizing has Consequences
Fallacies of Compression
Replace the Symbol with the Substance
Taboo Your Words
Empty Labels
The Argument from Common Usage
Feel The Meaning
Disputing Definitions
How an Algorithm Feels From Inside
Neural Categories
Disguised Queries
The Cluster Structure of Thingspace