Rationality: From AI to Zombies

A podcast by Eliezer Yudkowsky

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Society & Culture

342 Episodes

  1. Conditional Independence and Naive Bayes

    Published: 3/9/2015

  2. Superexponential Conceptspace and Simple Words

    Published: 3/9/2015

  3. Mutual Information and Density in Thingspace

    Published: 3/8/2015

  4. Entropy and Short Codes

    Published: 3/8/2015

  5. Where to Draw the Boundary?

    Published: 3/8/2015

  6. Arguing "By Definition"

    Published: 3/8/2015

  7. Sneaking in Connotations

    Published: 3/8/2015

  8. Categorizing has Consequences

    Published: 3/8/2015

  9. Fallacies of Compression

    Published: 3/8/2015

  10. Replace the Symbol with the Substance

    Published: 3/8/2015

  11. Taboo Your Words

    Published: 3/8/2015

  12. Empty Labels

    Published: 3/8/2015

  13. The Argument from Common Usage

    Published: 3/8/2015

  14. Feel The Meaning

    Published: 3/8/2015

  15. Disputing Definitions

    Published: 3/8/2015

  16. How an Algorithm Feels From Inside

    Published: 3/8/2015

  17. Neural Categories

    Published: 3/8/2015

  18. Disguised Queries

    Published: 3/8/2015

  19. The Cluster Structure of Thingspace

    Published: 3/8/2015

  20. Typicality and Asymmetrical Similarity

    Published: 3/8/2015

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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.