Rationality: From AI to Zombies
A podcast by Eliezer Yudkowsky
342 Episodes
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Failing to Learn from History
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My Wild and Reckless Youth
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Lawful Uncertainty
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Positive Bias-Look Into the Dark
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Say Not "Complexity"
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The Futility of Emergence
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Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions
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Semantic Stopsigns
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Fake Causality
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Science as Attire
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Guessing the Teacher's Password
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Fake Explanations
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Hindsight Devalues Science
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Conservation of Expected Evidence
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Absence of Evidence is Evidence of Absence
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Your Strength as a Rationalist
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Occam's Razor
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Einstein's Arrogance
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How Much Evidence Does It Take?
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Scientific Evidence, Legal Evidence, Rational Evidence
Published: 02/03/2015
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.
