Rationality: From AI to Zombies

A podcast by Eliezer Yudkowsky

Categories:

Society & Culture

342 Episodes

  1. Angry Atoms

    Published: 3/10/2015

  2. Hand vs. Fingers

    Published: 3/10/2015

  3. Initiation Ceremony

    Published: 3/10/2015

  4. To Spread Science, Keep it Secret

    Published: 3/10/2015

  5. The Sacred Mundane

    Published: 3/10/2015

  6. Scarcity

    Published: 3/10/2015

  7. Is Humanism A Religion-Substitute

    Published: 3/10/2015

  8. Amazing Breakthrough Day: April 1st

    Published: 3/10/2015

  9. The Beauty of Settled Science

    Published: 3/10/2015

  10. Mundane Magic

    Published: 3/10/2015

  11. If You Demand Magic, Magic Won't Help

    Published: 3/10/2015

  12. Bind Yourself to Reality

    Published: 3/10/2015

  13. Joy in Discovery

    Published: 3/10/2015

  14. Joy in the Merely Real

    Published: 3/10/2015

  15. Savannah Poets

    Published: 3/10/2015

  16. Fake Reductionism

    Published: 3/10/2015

  17. Explaining vs. Explaining Away

    Published: 3/10/2015

  18. Reductionism

    Published: 3/10/2015

  19. Chaotic Inversion

    Published: 3/10/2015

  20. Think Like Reality

    Published: 3/9/2015

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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.