Rationality: From AI to Zombies
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...
Episodes (684)
Go Forth and Create the Art!
Rationality: From AI to Zombies
The Sin of Underconfidence
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Practical Advice Backed by Deep Theories
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Beware of Other-Optimizing
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Bayesians vs. Barbarians
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Incremental Progress and the Valley
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Purchase Fuzzies and Utilons Separately
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Money: The Unit of Caring
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Helpless Individuals
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Rationality: Common Interest of Many Causes
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Church vs. Taskforce
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Can Humanism Match Religions Output?
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Your Price for Joining
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Tolerate Tolerance
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Why Our Kind Can't Cooperate
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Three Levels of Rationality Verification
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Schools Proliferating Without Evidence
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Epistemic Visciousness
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A Sense That More Is Possible
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Pt Z Raising the Sanity Waterline
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Final Words
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Shut Up and Do the Impossible!
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Make an Extraordinary Effort
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On Doing the Impossible
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Use the Try Harder, Luke
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Trying to Try
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Tsuyoku vs. the Egalitarian Instinct
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Tsuyoki Naritai! (I Want to Become Stronger)
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My Bayesian Enlightenment
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Beyond the Reach of God
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The Magnitude of His Own Folly
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The Level Above Mine
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My Naturalistic Awakening
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Fighting a Rearguard Action Against the Truth
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That Tiny Note of Discord
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The Sheer Folly of Callow Youth
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A Prodigy of Refutation
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Raised in Technophilia
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My Best and Worst Mistake
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My Childhood Death Spiral
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Beginnings: An Introduction
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The Twelve Virtues of Rationality
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Newcomb's Problem and Regret of Rationality
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When (Not) to Use Probabilities
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Something To Protect
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Ethical Injunctions
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Ends Don't Justify Means (Among Humans)
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The "Intuitions" Behind "Utilitarianism"
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Feeling Moral
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Zut Allais!
Rationality: From AI to Zombies