Rationality: From AI to Zombies

A podcast by Eliezer Yudkowsky

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Society & Culture

342 Episodes

  1. Morality as Fixed Computation

    Published: 3/13/2015

  2. Could Anything Be Right

    Published: 3/13/2015

  3. Changing Your Metaethics

    Published: 3/13/2015

  4. What Would You Do Without Morality

    Published: 3/13/2015

  5. 2 Place and 1 Place Words

    Published: 3/13/2015

  6. Sorting Pebbles into Correct Heaps

    Published: 3/13/2015

  7. Created Already In Motion

    Published: 3/13/2015

  8. No Universally Compelling Arguments

    Published: 3/13/2015

  9. My Kind of Reflection

    Published: 3/13/2015

  10. Where Recursive Justification Hits Bottom

    Published: 3/13/2015

  11. The Design Space of Minds-in-General

    Published: 3/12/2015

  12. Dreams of AI Design

    Published: 3/12/2015

  13. Detached Lever Fallacy

    Published: 3/12/2015

  14. Fake Utility Functions

    Published: 3/12/2015

  15. Fake Morality

    Published: 3/12/2015

  16. Fake Selfishness

    Published: 3/12/2015

  17. Not for the Sake of Happiness (Alone)

    Published: 3/12/2015

  18. Ends: An Introduction

    Published: 3/12/2015

  19. Interlude - A Technical Explanation of Technical

    Published: 3/12/2015

  20. Class Project

    Published: 3/12/2015

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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.