Rationality: From AI to Zombies

A podcast by Eliezer Yudkowsky

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Society & Culture

342 Episodes

  1. Go Forth and Create the Art!

    Published: 3/16/2015

  2. The Sin of Underconfidence

    Published: 3/16/2015

  3. Practical Advice Backed by Deep Theories

    Published: 3/16/2015

  4. Beware of Other-Optimizing

    Published: 3/15/2015

  5. Bayesians vs. Barbarians

    Published: 3/15/2015

  6. Incremental Progress and the Valley

    Published: 3/15/2015

  7. Purchase Fuzzies and Utilons Separately

    Published: 3/15/2015

  8. Money: The Unit of Caring

    Published: 3/15/2015

  9. Helpless Individuals

    Published: 3/15/2015

  10. Rationality: Common Interest of Many Causes

    Published: 3/15/2015

  11. Church vs. Taskforce

    Published: 3/15/2015

  12. Can Humanism Match Religions Output?

    Published: 3/15/2015

  13. Your Price for Joining

    Published: 3/15/2015

  14. Tolerate Tolerance

    Published: 3/15/2015

  15. Why Our Kind Can't Cooperate

    Published: 3/15/2015

  16. Three Levels of Rationality Verification

    Published: 3/15/2015

  17. Schools Proliferating Without Evidence

    Published: 3/15/2015

  18. Epistemic Visciousness

    Published: 3/15/2015

  19. A Sense That More Is Possible

    Published: 3/15/2015

  20. Pt Z Raising the Sanity Waterline

    Published: 3/15/2015

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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.