Rationality: From AI to Zombies

A podcast by Eliezer Yudkowsky

Categories:

Society & Culture

342 Episodes

  1. Lonely Dissent

    Published: 3/6/2015

  2. On Expressing Your Concerns

    Published: 3/6/2015

  3. Asch's Conformity Experiment

    Published: 3/6/2015

  4. Two Cult Koans

    Published: 3/6/2015

  5. Guardians of Ayn Rand

    Published: 3/6/2015

  6. Guardians of the Gene Pool

    Published: 3/6/2015

  7. Guardians of the Truth

    Published: 3/6/2015

  8. Every Cause Wants to be a Cult

    Published: 3/6/2015

  9. The Robbers Cave Experiment

    Published: 3/6/2015

  10. When None Dare Urge Restraint

    Published: 3/6/2015

  11. Evaporative Cooling of Group Beliefs

    Published: 3/6/2015

  12. Uncritical Supercriticality

    Published: 3/5/2015

  13. Resist The Happy Death Spiral

    Published: 3/5/2015

  14. Affective Death Spirals

    Published: 3/5/2015

  15. Mere Messiahs

    Published: 3/5/2015

  16. Superhero Bias

    Published: 3/5/2015

  17. The Halo Effect

    Published: 3/5/2015

  18. Unbounded Scales, Huge Jury Awards, and Futurism

    Published: 3/5/2015

  19. Evaluability (and Cheap Holiday Shopping)

    Published: 3/5/2015

  20. The Affect Heuristic

    Published: 3/5/2015

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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.