Rationality: From AI to Zombies

A podcast by Eliezer Yudkowsky

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Society & Culture

342 Episodes

  1. Einstein's Superpowers

    Published: 3/12/2015

  2. My Childhood Role Model

    Published: 3/12/2015

  3. That Alien Message

    Published: 3/12/2015

  4. Einstein's Speed

    Published: 3/12/2015

  5. Faster Than Science

    Published: 3/12/2015

  6. Changing the Definition of Science

    Published: 3/12/2015

  7. No Safe Defense, Not Even Science

    Published: 3/12/2015

  8. Do Scientists Already Know This Stuff?

    Published: 3/12/2015

  9. Science Isn't Strict Enough

    Published: 3/12/2015

  10. When Science Can't Help

    Published: 3/12/2015

  11. Science Doesn't Trust Your Rationality

    Published: 3/12/2015

  12. The Dilemma: Science or Bayes?

    Published: 3/12/2015

  13. The Failures of Eld Science

    Published: 3/12/2015

  14. Many Worlds, One Best Guess

    Published: 3/11/2015

  15. Thou Art Physics

    Published: 3/11/2015

  16. Where Philosophy Meets Science

    Published: 3/11/2015

  17. If Many Worlds Had Come First

    Published: 3/11/2015

  18. Quantum Non-Realism

    Published: 3/11/2015

  19. Living In Many Worlds

    Published: 3/11/2015

  20. Privileging the Hypothesis

    Published: 3/11/2015

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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.