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Rationality: From AI to Zombies

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...

Episodes (684)

Decoherence is Falsifiable and Testable

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Decoherence is Simple

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Mar 11, 201522:58pending

Collapse Postulates

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Mar 11, 20156:22pending

Distinct Configurations

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Joint Configurations

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Configurations and Amplitude

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Mar 11, 20150:23pending

Quantum Explanations

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Mar 11, 201512:23pending

Psychic Powers

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Mar 11, 20156:22pending

Excluding the Supernatural

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Mar 11, 201515:40pending

Zombies: The Movie

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Mar 11, 20158:06pending

Belief in the Implied Invisible

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Mar 11, 201510:49pending

GAZP vs. GLUT

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Mar 11, 201517:08pending

The Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle

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Mar 11, 201520:10pending

Zombie Responses

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Mar 11, 201515:47pending

Zombies! Zombies?

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Mar 11, 201545:17pending

Reductive References

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Mar 11, 201512:56pending

A Priori

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Mar 10, 20159:22pending

When Anthropomorphism Became Stupid

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Mar 10, 20156:07pending

Brain Breakthrough! It's Made of Neurons!

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Mar 10, 20153:38pending

Heat vs. Motion

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Mar 10, 201511:01pending

Angry Atoms

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Mar 10, 20158:54pending

Hand vs. Fingers

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Mar 10, 20156:21pending

Initiation Ceremony

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Mar 10, 20157:08pending

To Spread Science, Keep it Secret

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Mar 10, 20158:31pending

The Sacred Mundane

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Mar 10, 20158:23pending

Scarcity

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Mar 10, 20154:44pending

Is Humanism A Religion-Substitute

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Mar 10, 20156:06pending

Amazing Breakthrough Day: April 1st

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Mar 10, 20153:44pending

The Beauty of Settled Science

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Mar 10, 20153:36pending

Mundane Magic

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Mar 10, 20157:00pending

If You Demand Magic, Magic Won't Help

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Bind Yourself to Reality

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Mar 10, 20154:44pending

Joy in Discovery

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Mar 10, 20158:34pending

Joy in the Merely Real

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Mar 10, 20153:30pending

Savannah Poets

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Mar 10, 20159:22pending

Fake Reductionism

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Mar 10, 20154:17pending

Explaining vs. Explaining Away

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Mar 10, 20157:23pending

Reductionism

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Mar 10, 20158:44pending

Chaotic Inversion

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Mar 10, 20152:52pending

Think Like Reality

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Mar 9, 20154:55pending

Qualitatively Confused

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Mar 9, 20158:15pending

The Quotation is Not the Referent

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Mar 9, 20150:23pending

Probability is in the Mind

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Mar 9, 201511:31pending

Mind Projection Fallacy

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Mar 9, 20153:20pending

Righting a Wrong Question

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Mar 9, 20156:10pending

Wrong Questions

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Mar 9, 20154:23pending

Dissolving the Question

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Mar 9, 201511:22pending

Searching for Bayes-Structure

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Mar 9, 20159:03pending

Perpetual Motion Beliefs

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Mar 9, 20157:12pending

The Second Law of Thermodynamics

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