Rationality: From AI to Zombies

A podcast by Eliezer Yudkowsky

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Society & Culture

342 Episodes

  1. Final Words

    Published: 3/15/2015

  2. Shut Up and Do the Impossible!

    Published: 3/15/2015

  3. Make an Extraordinary Effort

    Published: 3/15/2015

  4. On Doing the Impossible

    Published: 3/15/2015

  5. Use the Try Harder, Luke

    Published: 3/14/2015

  6. Trying to Try

    Published: 3/14/2015

  7. Tsuyoku vs. the Egalitarian Instinct

    Published: 3/14/2015

  8. Tsuyoki Naritai! (I Want to Become Stronger)

    Published: 3/14/2015

  9. My Bayesian Enlightenment

    Published: 3/14/2015

  10. Beyond the Reach of God

    Published: 3/14/2015

  11. The Magnitude of His Own Folly

    Published: 3/14/2015

  12. The Level Above Mine

    Published: 3/14/2015

  13. My Naturalistic Awakening

    Published: 3/14/2015

  14. Fighting a Rearguard Action Against the Truth

    Published: 3/14/2015

  15. That Tiny Note of Discord

    Published: 3/14/2015

  16. The Sheer Folly of Callow Youth

    Published: 3/14/2015

  17. A Prodigy of Refutation

    Published: 3/14/2015

  18. Raised in Technophilia

    Published: 3/14/2015

  19. My Best and Worst Mistake

    Published: 3/14/2015

  20. My Childhood Death Spiral

    Published: 3/14/2015

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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.