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Rationality: From AI to Zombies

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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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.

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341 episodes
Go Forth and Create the Art!
Rationality: From AI to Zombies

Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Go Forth and Create the Art!

9m
Mar 15, 2015
The Sin of Underconfidence
Rationality: From AI to Zombies

Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - The Sin of Underconfidence

12m
Mar 15, 2015
Practical Advice Backed by Deep Theories
Rationality: From AI to Zombies

Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Practical Advice Backed by Deep Theories

7m
Mar 15, 2015
Beware of Other-Optimizing
Rationality: From AI to Zombies

Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Beware of Other-Optimizing

9m
Mar 15, 2015
Bayesians vs. Barbarians
Rationality: From AI to Zombies

Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Bayesians vs. Barbarians

15m
Mar 15, 2015
Incremental Progress and the Valley
Rationality: From AI to Zombies

Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Incremental Progress and the Valley

1s
Mar 15, 2015
Purchase Fuzzies and Utilons Separately
Rationality: From AI to Zombies

Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Purchase Fuzzies and Utilons Separately

8m
Mar 15, 2015
Money: The Unit of Caring
Rationality: From AI to Zombies

Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Money: The Unit of Caring

8m
Mar 15, 2015
Helpless Individuals
Rationality: From AI to Zombies

Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Helpless Individuals

6m
Mar 15, 2015
Rationality: Common Interest of Many Causes
Rationality: From AI to Zombies

Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Rationality: Common Interest of Many Causes

7m
Mar 15, 2015
Church vs. Taskforce
Rationality: From AI to Zombies

Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Church vs. Taskforce

9m
Mar 15, 2015
Can Humanism Match Religions Output?
Rationality: From AI to Zombies

Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Can Humanism Match Religion's Output?

9m
Mar 15, 2015
Your Price for Joining
Rationality: From AI to Zombies

Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Your Price for Joining

9m
Mar 15, 2015
Tolerate Tolerance
Rationality: From AI to Zombies

Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Tolerate Tolerance

4m
Mar 15, 2015
Why Our Kind Can't Cooperate
Rationality: From AI to Zombies

Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Why Our Kind Can't Cooperate

18m
Mar 15, 2015
Three Levels of Rationality Verification
Rationality: From AI to Zombies

Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Three Levels of Rationality Verification

6m
Mar 15, 2015
Schools Proliferating Without Evidence
Rationality: From AI to Zombies

Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Schools Proliferating Without Evidence

5m
Mar 15, 2015
Epistemic Visciousness
Rationality: From AI to Zombies

Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Epistemic Visciousness

4m
Mar 15, 2015
A Sense That More Is Possible
Rationality: From AI to Zombies

Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - A Sense That More Is Possible

8m
Mar 15, 2015
Pt Z Raising the Sanity Waterline
Rationality: From AI to Zombies

Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Raising the Sanity Waterline

6m
Mar 15, 2015
Final Words
Rationality: From AI to Zombies

Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Y: Challenging the Difficult - Final Words

18m
Mar 14, 2015
Shut Up and Do the Impossible!
Rationality: From AI to Zombies

Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Y: Challenging the Difficult - Shut Up and Do the Impossible!

22m
Mar 14, 2015
Make an Extraordinary Effort
Rationality: From AI to Zombies

Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Y: Challenging the Difficult - Make an Extraordinary Effort

9m
Mar 14, 2015
On Doing the Impossible
Rationality: From AI to Zombies

Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Y: Challenging the Difficult - On Doing the Impossible

14m
Mar 14, 2015
Use the Try Harder, Luke
Rationality: From AI to Zombies

Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Y: Challenging the Difficult - Use the Try Harder, Luke

4m
Mar 14, 2015
Trying to Try
Rationality: From AI to Zombies

Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Y: Challenging the Difficult - Trying to Try

7m
Mar 14, 2015
Tsuyoku vs. the Egalitarian Instinct
Rationality: From AI to Zombies

Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Y: Challenging the Difficult - Tsuyoku vs. the Egalitarian Instinct

3m
Mar 14, 2015
Tsuyoki Naritai! (I Want to Become Stronger)
Rationality: From AI to Zombies

Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Y: Challenging the Difficult - Tsuyoki Naritai! (I Want to Become Stronger)

6m
Mar 14, 2015
My Bayesian Enlightenment
Rationality: From AI to Zombies

Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part X: Yudkowsky's Coming of Age - My Bayesian Enlightenment

14m
Mar 14, 2015
Beyond the Reach of God
Rationality: From AI to Zombies

Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part X: Yudkowsky's Coming of Age - Beyond the Reach of God

21m
Mar 14, 2015