Rationality: From AI to Zombies

A podcast by Eliezer Yudkowsky

Categories:

Society & Culture

342 Episodes

  1. Decoherence is Falsifiable and Testable

    Published: 3/11/2015

  2. Decoherence is Simple

    Published: 3/11/2015

  3. Collapse Postulates

    Published: 3/11/2015

  4. Distinct Configurations

    Published: 3/11/2015

  5. Joint Configurations

    Published: 3/11/2015

  6. Configurations and Amplitude

    Published: 3/11/2015

  7. Quantum Explanations

    Published: 3/11/2015

  8. Psychic Powers

    Published: 3/11/2015

  9. Excluding the Supernatural

    Published: 3/11/2015

  10. Zombies: The Movie

    Published: 3/11/2015

  11. Belief in the Implied Invisible

    Published: 3/11/2015

  12. GAZP vs. GLUT

    Published: 3/11/2015

  13. The Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle

    Published: 3/11/2015

  14. Zombie Responses

    Published: 3/11/2015

  15. Zombies! Zombies?

    Published: 3/11/2015

  16. Reductive References

    Published: 3/11/2015

  17. A Priori

    Published: 3/10/2015

  18. When Anthropomorphism Became Stupid

    Published: 3/10/2015

  19. Brain Breakthrough! It's Made of Neurons!

    Published: 3/10/2015

  20. Heat vs. Motion

    Published: 3/10/2015

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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.