Rationality: From AI to Zombies

By: 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 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.
    2015 CC BY-NC-SA3.0
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Episodes
  • Biases: An Introduction

    Biases: An Introduction
    Mar 1 2015
    Biases: An Introduction
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    21 mins
  • What Do I Mean By Rationality?

    What Do I Mean By Rationality?
    Mar 1 2015
    Book I: Map and Territory - Part A: Predictably Wrong - What Do I Mean By Rationality?
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    8 mins
  • Feeling Rational

    Feeling Rational
    Mar 1 2015
    Book I: Map and Territory - Part A: Predictably Wrong - Feeling Rational
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    5 mins

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This book will probably change my life for better

I identified with this book, and I would not have known it at first. The writing style is easy to follow. And, although there is occasional math which is hard to follow (if listening to the audiobook version), it's not like you're asked to solve equations as you read. The author is good about breaking complexities into terms that your average person could understand. I would listen to it again, but maybe sometime in the distant future when I need a refresher.

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