342 Épisodes

  1. Similarity Clusters

    Publié: 08/03/2015
  2. Extensions and Intensions

    Publié: 08/03/2015
  3. Words as Hidden Inferences

    Publié: 08/03/2015
  4. The Parable of Hemlock

    Publié: 08/03/2015
  5. The Parable of the Dagger

    Publié: 08/03/2015
  6. Lost Purposes

    Publié: 07/03/2015
  7. Anthropomorphic Optimism

    Publié: 07/03/2015
  8. The Hidden Complexity of Wishes

    Publié: 07/03/2015
  9. Leaky Generalizations

    Publié: 07/03/2015
  10. Terminal Values and Instrumental Values

    Publié: 07/03/2015
  11. Artificial Addition

    Publié: 07/03/2015
  12. Ghosts in the Machine

    Publié: 07/03/2015
  13. Optimization and the Intelligence Explosion

    Publié: 07/03/2015
  14. Humans in Funny Suits

    Publié: 07/03/2015
  15. Belief in Intelligence

    Publié: 07/03/2015
  16. Thou Art Godshatter

    Publié: 07/03/2015
  17. Superstimuli and the Collapse of Western Civilization

    Publié: 07/03/2015
  18. An Especially Elegant Evolutionary Psychology Experiment

    Publié: 07/03/2015
  19. Evolutionary Psychology

    Publié: 07/03/2015
  20. Adaptation-Executers, Not Fitness-Maximizers

    Publié: 07/03/2015

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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.

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