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 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.

Biases: An Introduction

Biases: An Introduction

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What Do I Mean By Rationality?

Book I: Map and Territory - Part A: Predictably Wrong - What Do I Mean By Rationality?

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08:17

Feeling Rational

Book I: Map and Territory - Part A: Predictably Wrong - Feeling Rational

03-01
05:15

Why Truth? And...

Book I: Map and Territory - Part A: Predictably Wrong - Why Truth? And...

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07:33

...What's a Bias Again?

Book I: Map and Territory - Part A: Predictably Wrong - ...What's a Bias Again?

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07:12

Availability

Book I: Map and Territory - Part A: Predictably Wrong - Availability

03-01
04:55

Burdensome Details

Book I: Map and Territory - Part A: Predictably Wrong - Burdensome Details

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08:44

Planning Fallacy

Book I: Map and Territory - Part A: Predictably Wrong - Planning Fallacy

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06:42

Illusion of Transparency: Why No One Understands You

Book I: Map and Territory - Part A: Predictably Wrong - Illusion of Transparency: Why No One Understands You

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04:44

Expecting Short Inferential Distances

Book I: Map and Territory - Part A: Predictably Wrong - Expecting Short Inferential Distances

03-01
05:44

The Lens That Sees Its Own Flaws

Book I: Map and Territory - Part A: Predictably Wrong - The Lens That Sees Its Own Flaws

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05:53

Making Beliefs Pay Rent (in Anticipated Experiences)

Book I: Map and Territory - Part B: Fake Beliefs - Making Beliefs Pay Rent (in Anticipated Experiences)

03-01
07:03

A Fable of Science and Politics

Book I: Map and Territory - Part B: Fake Beliefs - A Fable of Science and Politics

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11:36

Belief in Belief

Book I: Map and Territory - Part B: Fake Beliefs - Belief in Belief

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09:25

Bayesian Judo

Book I: Map and Territory - Part B: Fake Beliefs - Bayesian Judo

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02:21

Pretending to be Wise

Book I: Map and Territory - Part B: Fake Beliefs - Pretending to be Wise

03-01
07:53

Religion's Claim to be Non-Disprovable

Book I: Map and Territory - Part B: Fake Beliefs - Religion's Claim to be Non-Disprovable

03-01
09:34

Professing and Cheering

Book I: Map and Territory - Part B: Fake Beliefs - Professing and Cheering

03-01
04:49

Belief as Attire

Book I: Map and Territory - Part B: Fake Beliefs - Belief as Attire

03-01
03:15

Applause Lights

Book I: Map and Territory - Part B: Fake Beliefs - Applause Lights

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