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...
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Outside the Laboratory
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Beautiful Probability
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Is Reality Ugly?
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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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37 Ways That Words Can Be Wrong
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Variable Question Fallacies
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Words as Mental Paintbrush Handles
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Conditional Independence and Naive Bayes
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Superexponential Conceptspace and Simple Words
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Mutual Information and Density in Thingspace
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Entropy and Short Codes
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Where to Draw the Boundary?
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Arguing "By Definition"
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Sneaking in Connotations
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Categorizing has Consequences
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Fallacies of Compression
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Replace the Symbol with the Substance
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Taboo Your Words
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Empty Labels
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The Argument from Common Usage
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Feel The Meaning
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Disputing Definitions
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How an Algorithm Feels From Inside
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Neural Categories
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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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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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Lost Purposes
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Anthropomorphic Optimism
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The Hidden Complexity of Wishes
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Leaky Generalizations
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Terminal Values and Instrumental Values
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Artificial Addition
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Ghosts in the Machine
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Optimization and the Intelligence Explosion
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Humans in Funny Suits
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Belief in Intelligence
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Thou Art Godshatter
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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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