Rationality: From AI to Zombies

A podcast by Eliezer Yudkowsky

Categories:

Society & Culture

342 Episodes

  1. The Scales of Justice, the Notebook of Rationality

    Published: 3/3/2015

  2. Policy Debates Should not Appear One-Sided

    Published: 3/3/2015

  3. Politics is the Mind-Killer

    Published: 3/3/2015

  4. Your Rationality Is My Business

    Published: 3/3/2015

  5. 0 and 1 Are Not Probabilities

    Published: 3/3/2015

  6. Infinite Certainty

    Published: 3/3/2015

  7. How To Convince Me That 2 + 2 = 3

    Published: 3/3/2015

  8. Absolute Authority

    Published: 3/3/2015

  9. The Fallacy Of Gray

    Published: 3/3/2015

  10. But There's Still A Chance Right?

    Published: 3/3/2015

  11. New Improved Lottery

    Published: 3/3/2015

  12. Lotteries A Waste of Hope

    Published: 3/3/2015

  13. The Third Alternative

    Published: 3/3/2015

  14. The Proper Use Of Humility

    Published: 3/3/2015

  15. Rationality: An Introduction

    Published: 3/3/2015

  16. Interlude - The Simple Truth

    Published: 3/3/2015

  17. Truly Part of You

    Published: 3/3/2015

  18. "Science" as a Curiosity-Stopper

    Published: 3/3/2015

  19. Explain/Worship/Ignore?

    Published: 3/3/2015

  20. Making History Available

    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.