Rationality: From AI to Zombies

A podcast by Eliezer Yudkowsky

Categories:

Society & Culture

342 Episodes

  1. Beginnings: An Introduction

    Published: 3/14/2015

  2. The Twelve Virtues of Rationality

    Published: 3/14/2015

  3. Newcomb's Problem and Regret of Rationality

    Published: 3/14/2015

  4. When (Not) to Use Probabilities

    Published: 3/14/2015

  5. Something To Protect

    Published: 3/14/2015

  6. Ethical Injunctions

    Published: 3/14/2015

  7. Ends Don't Justify Means (Among Humans)

    Published: 3/14/2015

  8. The "Intuitions" Behind "Utilitarianism"

    Published: 3/13/2015

  9. Feeling Moral

    Published: 3/13/2015

  10. Zut Allais!

    Published: 3/13/2015

  11. The Allais Paradox

    Published: 3/13/2015

  12. One Life Against the World

    Published: 3/13/2015

  13. Scope Insensitivty

    Published: 3/13/2015

  14. The Gift We Give to Tomorrow

    Published: 3/13/2015

  15. Value is Fragile

    Published: 3/13/2015

  16. Serious Stories

    Published: 3/13/2015

  17. High Challenge

    Published: 3/13/2015

  18. Sympathetic Minds

    Published: 3/13/2015

  19. The True Prisoner's Dilemma

    Published: 3/13/2015

  20. Magical Categories

    Published: 3/13/2015

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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.