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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.

Rationality: From AI to Zombies Eliezer Yudkowsky

    • Society & Culture

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

    Biases: An Introduction

    • 21 min
    What Do I Mean By Rationality?

    What Do I Mean By Rationality?

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

    • 8 min
    Feeling Rational

    Feeling Rational

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

    • 5 min
    Why Truth? And...

    Why Truth? And...

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

    • 7 min
    ...What's a Bias Again?

    ...What's a Bias Again?

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

    • 7 min
    Availability

    Availability

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

    • 4 min

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