Rationality: From AI to Zombies

A podcast by Eliezer Yudkowsky

Categories:

Society & Culture

342 Episodes

  1. The Genetic Fallacy

    Published: 3/5/2015

  2. Hold Off On Proposing Solutions

    Published: 3/5/2015

  3. We Change Our Minds Less often Than We Think

    Published: 3/5/2015

  4. How To Seem (And Be) Deep

    Published: 3/5/2015

  5. The Virtue of Narrowness

    Published: 3/5/2015

  6. The Logical Fallacy of Generalization from Fictional Evidence

    Published: 3/5/2015

  7. Stranger Than History

    Published: 3/5/2015

  8. Original Seeing

    Published: 3/5/2015

  9. The "Outside the Box" Box

    Published: 3/5/2015

  10. Cached Thoughts

    Published: 3/5/2015

  11. Do We Believe Everything We're Told?

    Published: 3/5/2015

  12. Priming and Contamination

    Published: 3/5/2015

  13. Anchoring and Adjustment

    Published: 3/5/2015

  14. Don't Believe You'll Self Deceive

    Published: 3/5/2015

  15. Moore's Paradox

    Published: 3/4/2015

  16. Belief in Self Deception

    Published: 3/4/2015

  17. No, Really, I've Deceived Myself

    Published: 3/4/2015

  18. Doublethink (Choosing To Be Biased)

    Published: 3/4/2015

  19. Singlethink

    Published: 3/4/2015

  20. Dark Side Epistemology

    Published: 3/4/2015

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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.