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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...

Episodes (684)

The Allais Paradox

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One Life Against the World

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Scope Insensitivty

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The Gift We Give to Tomorrow

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Value is Fragile

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Serious Stories

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High Challenge

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Sympathetic Minds

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The True Prisoner's Dilemma

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Mar 13, 201511:30pending

Magical Categories

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Mar 13, 201519:55pending

Morality as Fixed Computation

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Could Anything Be Right

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Changing Your Metaethics

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What Would You Do Without Morality

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2 Place and 1 Place Words

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Sorting Pebbles into Correct Heaps

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Created Already In Motion

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No Universally Compelling Arguments

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My Kind of Reflection

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Where Recursive Justification Hits Bottom

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The Design Space of Minds-in-General

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Dreams of AI Design

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Mar 12, 20159:59pending

Detached Lever Fallacy

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Fake Utility Functions

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Mar 12, 20157:56pending

Fake Morality

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Fake Selfishness

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Not for the Sake of Happiness (Alone)

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Ends: An Introduction

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Interlude - A Technical Explanation of Technical

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Class Project

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Einstein's Superpowers

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My Childhood Role Model

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That Alien Message

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Einstein's Speed

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Faster Than Science

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Changing the Definition of Science

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No Safe Defense, Not Even Science

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Mar 12, 201511:49pending

Do Scientists Already Know This Stuff?

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Mar 12, 201511:15pending

Science Isn't Strict Enough

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When Science Can't Help

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Science Doesn't Trust Your Rationality

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The Dilemma: Science or Bayes?

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Mar 12, 201510:15pending

The Failures of Eld Science

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Many Worlds, One Best Guess

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Mar 11, 201526:55pending

Thou Art Physics

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Mar 11, 20157:58pending

Where Philosophy Meets Science

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If Many Worlds Had Come First

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Quantum Non-Realism

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Living In Many Worlds

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Privileging the Hypothesis

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