Rationality: From AI to Zombies

A podcast by Eliezer Yudkowsky

Categories:

Society & Culture

342 Episodes

  1. Fake Optimization Criteria

    Published: 3/7/2015

  2. The Tragedy of Group Selectionism

    Published: 3/7/2015

  3. Evolving to Extinction

    Published: 3/7/2015

  4. No Evolutions for Corporations or Nanodevices

    Published: 3/7/2015

  5. Evolutions are Stupid (But Work Anyway)

    Published: 3/7/2015

  6. The Wonder of Evolution

    Published: 3/7/2015

  7. An Alien God

    Published: 3/7/2015

  8. Interlude: The Power of Intelligence

    Published: 3/7/2015

  9. Minds: An Introduction

    Published: 3/6/2015

  10. The Ritual

    Published: 3/6/2015

  11. Crisis Of Faith

    Published: 3/6/2015

  12. Leave a Line of Retreat

    Published: 3/6/2015

  13. No One Can Exempt Your From Rationality's Laws

    Published: 3/6/2015

  14. The Meditation On Curiosity

    Published: 3/6/2015

  15. You Can Face Reality

    Published: 3/6/2015

  16. The Proper Use Of Doubt

    Published: 3/6/2015

  17. Just Lose Hope Already

    Published: 3/6/2015

  18. The Crackpot Offer

    Published: 3/6/2015

  19. The Importance Of Saying "Oops"

    Published: 3/6/2015

  20. Cultish Countercultishness

    Published: 3/6/2015

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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.