Rationality: From AI to Zombies

A podcast by Eliezer Yudkowsky

Categories:

Society & Culture

342 Episodes

  1. Qualitatively Confused

    Published: 3/9/2015

  2. The Quotation is Not the Referent

    Published: 3/9/2015

  3. Probability is in the Mind

    Published: 3/9/2015

  4. Mind Projection Fallacy

    Published: 3/9/2015

  5. Righting a Wrong Question

    Published: 3/9/2015

  6. Wrong Questions

    Published: 3/9/2015

  7. Dissolving the Question

    Published: 3/9/2015

  8. Searching for Bayes-Structure

    Published: 3/9/2015

  9. Perpetual Motion Beliefs

    Published: 3/9/2015

  10. The Second Law of Thermodynamics

    Published: 3/9/2015

  11. Outside the Laboratory

    Published: 3/9/2015

  12. Beautiful Probability

    Published: 3/9/2015

  13. Is Reality Ugly?

    Published: 3/9/2015

  14. Universal Law

    Published: 3/9/2015

  15. Universal Fire

    Published: 3/9/2015

  16. The World: An Introduction

    Published: 3/9/2015

  17. Interlude: An Intuitive Explanation of Bayes's Theorem

    Published: 3/9/2015

  18. 37 Ways That Words Can Be Wrong

    Published: 3/9/2015

  19. Variable Question Fallacies

    Published: 3/9/2015

  20. Words as Mental Paintbrush Handles

    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.