Rationality: From AI to Zombies

A podcast by Eliezer Yudkowsky

Categories:

Society & Culture

342 Episodes

  1. Similarity Clusters

    Published: 3/8/2015

  2. Extensions and Intensions

    Published: 3/8/2015

  3. Words as Hidden Inferences

    Published: 3/8/2015

  4. The Parable of Hemlock

    Published: 3/8/2015

  5. The Parable of the Dagger

    Published: 3/8/2015

  6. Lost Purposes

    Published: 3/7/2015

  7. Anthropomorphic Optimism

    Published: 3/7/2015

  8. The Hidden Complexity of Wishes

    Published: 3/7/2015

  9. Leaky Generalizations

    Published: 3/7/2015

  10. Terminal Values and Instrumental Values

    Published: 3/7/2015

  11. Artificial Addition

    Published: 3/7/2015

  12. Ghosts in the Machine

    Published: 3/7/2015

  13. Optimization and the Intelligence Explosion

    Published: 3/7/2015

  14. Humans in Funny Suits

    Published: 3/7/2015

  15. Belief in Intelligence

    Published: 3/7/2015

  16. Thou Art Godshatter

    Published: 3/7/2015

  17. Superstimuli and the Collapse of Western Civilization

    Published: 3/7/2015

  18. An Especially Elegant Evolutionary Psychology Experiment

    Published: 3/7/2015

  19. Evolutionary Psychology

    Published: 3/7/2015

  20. Adaptation-Executers, Not Fitness-Maximizers

    Published: 3/7/2015

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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.