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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Decoherence is Falsifiable and Testable
Rationality: From AI to Zombies
Decoherence is Simple
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Collapse Postulates
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Distinct Configurations
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Joint Configurations
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Configurations and Amplitude
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Quantum Explanations
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Psychic Powers
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Excluding the Supernatural
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Zombies: The Movie
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Belief in the Implied Invisible
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GAZP vs. GLUT
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The Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle
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Zombie Responses
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Zombies! Zombies?
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Reductive References
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A Priori
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When Anthropomorphism Became Stupid
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Brain Breakthrough! It's Made of Neurons!
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Heat vs. Motion
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Angry Atoms
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Hand vs. Fingers
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Initiation Ceremony
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To Spread Science, Keep it Secret
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The Sacred Mundane
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Scarcity
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Is Humanism A Religion-Substitute
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Amazing Breakthrough Day: April 1st
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The Beauty of Settled Science
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Mundane Magic
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If You Demand Magic, Magic Won't Help
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Bind Yourself to Reality
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Joy in Discovery
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Joy in the Merely Real
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Savannah Poets
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Fake Reductionism
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Explaining vs. Explaining Away
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Reductionism
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Chaotic Inversion
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Think Like Reality
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Qualitatively Confused
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The Quotation is Not the Referent
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Probability is in the Mind
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Mind Projection Fallacy
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Righting a Wrong Question
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Wrong Questions
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Dissolving the Question
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Searching for Bayes-Structure
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Perpetual Motion Beliefs
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The Second Law of Thermodynamics
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