Rationality: From AI to Zombies
by Eliezer Yudkowsky
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.
Episodes
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Go Forth and Create the Art!
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Go Forth and Create the Art!
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The Sin of Underconfidence
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - The Sin of Underconfidence
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Practical Advice Backed by Deep Theories
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Practical Advice Backed by Deep Theories
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Beware of Other-Optimizing
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Beware of Other-Optimizing
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Bayesians vs. Barbarians
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Bayesians vs. Barbarians
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Incremental Progress and the Valley
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Incremental Progress and the Valley
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Purchase Fuzzies and Utilons Separately
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Purchase Fuzzies and Utilons Separately
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Money: The Unit of Caring
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Money: The Unit of Caring
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Helpless Individuals
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Helpless Individuals
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Rationality: Common Interest of Many Causes
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Rationality: Common Interest of Many Causes
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Church vs. Taskforce
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Church vs. Taskforce
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Can Humanism Match Religions Output?
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Can Humanism Match Religion's Output?
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Your Price for Joining
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Your Price for Joining
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Tolerate Tolerance
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Tolerate Tolerance
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Why Our Kind Can't Cooperate
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Why Our Kind Can't Cooperate
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3 Levels of Rationality Verification
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - 3 Levels of Rationality Verification
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Schools Proliferating Without Evidence
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Schools Proliferating Without Evidence
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Epistemic Viciousness
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Epistemic Viciousness
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A Sense That More Is Possible
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - A Sense That More Is Possible
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Pt Z Raising the Sanity Waterline
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Raising the Sanity Waterline
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Final Words
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Y: Challenging the Difficult - Final Words
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Shut Up and Do the Impossible!
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Y: Challenging the Difficult - Shut Up and Do the Impossible!
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Make an Extraordinary Effort
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Y: Challenging the Difficult - Make an Extraordinary Effort
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On Doing the Impossible
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Y: Challenging the Difficult - On Doing the Impossible
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Use the Try Harder, Luke
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Y: Challenging the Difficult - Use the Try Harder, Luke
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Trying to Try
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Y: Challenging the Difficult - Trying to Try
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Tsuyoku vs. the Egalitarian Instinct
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Y: Challenging the Difficult - Tsuyoku vs. the Egalitarian Instinct
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Tsuyoku Naritai! (I Want to Become Stronger)
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Y: Challenging the Difficult - Tsuyoku Naritai! (I Want to Become Stronger)
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My Bayesian Enlightenment
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part X: Yudkowsky's Coming of Age - My Bayesian Enlightenment
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Beyond the Reach of God
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part X: Yudkowsky's Coming of Age - Beyond the Reach of God
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The Magnitude of His Own Folly
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part X: Yudkowsky's Coming of Age - The Magnitude of His Own Folly
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The Level Above Mine
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part X: Yudkowsky's Coming of Age - The Level Above Mine
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My Naturalistic Awakening
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part X: Yudkowsky's Coming of Age - My Naturalistic Awakening
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Fighting a Rearguard Action Against the Truth
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part X: Yudkowsky's Coming of Age - Fighting a Rearguard Action Against the Truth
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That Tiny Note of Discord
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part X: Yudkowsky's Coming of Age - That Tiny Note of Discord
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The Sheer Folly of Callow Youth
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part X: Yudkowsky's Coming of Age - The Sheer Folly of Callow Youth
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A Prodigy of Refutation
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part X: Yudkowsky's Coming of Age - A Prodigy of Refutation
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Raised in Technophilia
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part X: Yudkowsky's Coming of Age - Raised in Technophilia
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My Best and Worst Mistake
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part X: Yudkowsky's Coming of Age - My Best and Worst Mistake
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My Childhood Death Spiral
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part X: Yudkowsky's Coming of Age - My Childhood Death Spiral
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Beginnings: An Introduction
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Beginnings: An Introduction
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The Twelve Virtues of Rationality
Book V: Mere Goodness - Part W: Quantified Humanism - The Twelve Virtues of Rationality
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Newcomb's Problem and Regret of Rationality
Book V: Mere Goodness - Part W: Quantified Humanism - Newcomb's Problem and Regret of Rationality
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When (Not) to Use Probabilities
Book V: Mere Goodness - Part W: Quantified Humanism - When (Not) to Use Probabilities
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Something To Protect
Book V: Mere Goodness - Part W: Quantified Humanism - Something To Protect
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Ethical Injunctions
Book V: Mere Goodness - Part W: Quantified Humanism - Ethical Injunctions
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Ends Don't Justify Means (Among Humans)
Book V: Mere Goodness - Part W: Quantified Humanism - Ends Don't Justify Means (Among Humans)
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The "Intuitions" Behind "Utilitarianism"
Book V: Mere Goodness - Part W: Quantified Humanism - The "Intuitions" Behind "Utilitarianism"
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Feeling Moral
Book V: Mere Goodness - Part W: Quantified Humanism - Feeling Moral
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Zut Allais!
Book V: Mere Goodness - Part W: Quantified Humanism - Zut Allais!
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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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