Rationality: From AI to Zombies
A podcast by Eliezer Yudkowsky
342 Episoade
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Conditional Independence and Naive Bayes
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Superexponential Conceptspace and Simple Words
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Mutual Information and Density in Thingspace
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Entropy and Short Codes
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Where to Draw the Boundary?
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Arguing "By Definition"
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Sneaking in Connotations
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Categorizing has Consequences
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Fallacies of Compression
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Replace the Symbol with the Substance
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Taboo Your Words
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Empty Labels
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The Argument from Common Usage
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Feel The Meaning
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Disputing Definitions
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How an Algorithm Feels From Inside
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Neural Categories
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Disguised Queries
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The Cluster Structure of Thingspace
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Typicality and Asymmetrical Similarity
Publicat: 08.03.2015
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.
