Rationality: From AI to Zombies
A podcast by Eliezer Yudkowsky
342 Episodes
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What Is Evidence?
Published: 02/03/2015 -
Focus Your Uncertainty
Published: 02/03/2015 -
Applause Lights
Published: 02/03/2015 -
Belief as Attire
Published: 01/03/2015 -
Professing and Cheering
Published: 01/03/2015 -
Religion's Claim to be Non-Disprovable
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Pretending to be Wise
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Bayesian Judo
Published: 01/03/2015 -
Belief in Belief
Published: 01/03/2015 -
A Fable of Science and Politics
Published: 01/03/2015 -
Making Beliefs Pay Rent (in Anticipated Experiences)
Published: 01/03/2015 -
The Lens That Sees Its Own Flaws
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Expecting Short Inferential Distances
Published: 01/03/2015 -
Illusion of Transparency: Why No One Understands You
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Planning Fallacy
Published: 01/03/2015 -
Burdensome Details
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Availability
Published: 01/03/2015 -
...What's a Bias Again?
Published: 01/03/2015 -
Why Truth? And...
Published: 01/03/2015 -
Feeling Rational
Published: 01/03/2015
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.
