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...
Episodes (684)
Fake Optimization Criteria
Rationality: From AI to Zombies
The Tragedy of Group Selectionism
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Evolving to Extinction
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No Evolutions for Corporations or Nanodevices
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Evolutions are Stupid (But Work Anyway)
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The Wonder of Evolution
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An Alien God
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Interlude: The Power of Intelligence
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Minds: An Introduction
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The Ritual
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Crisis Of Faith
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Leave a Line of Retreat
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No One Can Exempt Your From Rationality's Laws
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The Meditation On Curiosity
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You Can Face Reality
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The Proper Use Of Doubt
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Just Lose Hope Already
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The Crackpot Offer
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The Importance Of Saying "Oops"
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Cultish Countercultishness
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Lonely Dissent
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On Expressing Your Concerns
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Asch's Conformity Experiment
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Two Cult Koans
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Guardians of Ayn Rand
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Guardians of the Gene Pool
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Guardians of the Truth
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Every Cause Wants to be a Cult
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The Robbers Cave Experiment
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When None Dare Urge Restraint
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Evaporative Cooling of Group Beliefs
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Uncritical Supercriticality
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Resist The Happy Death Spiral
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Affective Death Spirals
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Mere Messiahs
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Superhero Bias
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The Halo Effect
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Unbounded Scales, Huge Jury Awards, and Futurism
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Evaluability (and Cheap Holiday Shopping)
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The Affect Heuristic
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The Genetic Fallacy
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Hold Off On Proposing Solutions
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We Change Our Minds Less often Than We Think
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How To Seem (And Be) Deep
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The Virtue of Narrowness
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The Logical Fallacy of Generalization from Fictional Evidence
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Stranger Than History
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Original Seeing
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The "Outside the Box" Box
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Cached Thoughts
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