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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)

Outside the Laboratory

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Beautiful Probability

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Mar 9, 201513:15pending

Is Reality Ugly?

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Mar 9, 201511:34pending

Universal Law

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Universal Fire

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The World: An Introduction

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Interlude: An Intuitive Explanation of Bayes's Theorem

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Mar 9, 201511:49pending

37 Ways That Words Can Be Wrong

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Mar 9, 201520:28pending

Variable Question Fallacies

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Mar 9, 20152:49pending

Words as Mental Paintbrush Handles

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Mar 9, 20155:58pending

Conditional Independence and Naive Bayes

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Superexponential Conceptspace and Simple Words

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Mar 9, 201514:59pending

Mutual Information and Density in Thingspace

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Mar 8, 201516:49pending

Entropy and Short Codes

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Where to Draw the Boundary?

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Mar 8, 20156:56pending

Arguing "By Definition"

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Mar 8, 20158:24pending

Sneaking in Connotations

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Categorizing has Consequences

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Mar 8, 20154:54pending

Fallacies of Compression

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Mar 8, 20157:54pending

Replace the Symbol with the Substance

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Mar 8, 20159:36pending

Taboo Your Words

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Mar 8, 20156:22pending

Empty Labels

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Mar 8, 20156:06pending

The Argument from Common Usage

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Mar 8, 20158:44pending

Feel The Meaning

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Mar 8, 20157:42pending

Disputing Definitions

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How an Algorithm Feels From Inside

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Mar 8, 201510:32pending

Neural Categories

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Mar 8, 201511:50pending

Disguised Queries

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The Cluster Structure of Thingspace

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Typicality and Asymmetrical Similarity

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Similarity Clusters

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Extensions and Intensions

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Mar 8, 20158:29pending

Words as Hidden Inferences

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The Parable of Hemlock

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The Parable of the Dagger

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Mar 8, 20152:47pending

Lost Purposes

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Mar 7, 201512:45pending

Anthropomorphic Optimism

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Mar 7, 20158:51pending

The Hidden Complexity of Wishes

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Mar 7, 201513:21pending

Leaky Generalizations

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Mar 7, 20156:41pending

Terminal Values and Instrumental Values

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Mar 7, 201521:19pending

Artificial Addition

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Mar 7, 201512:11pending

Ghosts in the Machine

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Mar 7, 20157:48pending

Optimization and the Intelligence Explosion

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Humans in Funny Suits

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Mar 7, 201511:15pending

Belief in Intelligence

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Mar 7, 20156:44pending

Thou Art Godshatter

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Mar 7, 201511:49pending

Superstimuli and the Collapse of Western Civilization

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An Especially Elegant Evolutionary Psychology Experiment

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Evolutionary Psychology

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Adaptation-Executers, Not Fitness-Maximizers

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