Rationality: From AI to Zombies

A podcast by Eliezer Yudkowsky

Categories:

Society & Culture

342 Episodes

  1. Of Lies And Black Swan Blow Ups

    Published: 3/4/2015

  2. Entangled Truths, Contagious Lies

    Published: 3/4/2015

  3. Is That Your True Rejection?

    Published: 3/4/2015

  4. Fake Justification

    Published: 3/4/2015

  5. Motivated Stopping and Motivated Continuation

    Published: 3/4/2015

  6. Avoiding Your Belief's Real Weak Points

    Published: 3/4/2015

  7. A Rational Argument

    Published: 3/4/2015

  8. Rationalization

    Published: 3/4/2015

  9. What Evidence Filtered Evidence?

    Published: 3/4/2015

  10. The Bottom Line

    Published: 3/4/2015

  11. One Argument Against an Army

    Published: 3/4/2015

  12. Update Yourself Incrementally

    Published: 3/4/2015

  13. Knowing About Biases Can Hurt People

    Published: 3/4/2015

  14. Human Evil and Muddled Thinking

    Published: 3/4/2015

  15. Rationality and The English Language

    Published: 3/4/2015

  16. Hug The Query

    Published: 3/4/2015

  17. Argument Screens Off Authority

    Published: 3/4/2015

  18. Reversed Stupidity Is Not Intelligence

    Published: 3/3/2015

  19. Are Your Enemies Innately Evil?

    Published: 3/3/2015

  20. Correspondence Bias

    Published: 3/3/2015

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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.