342 Épisodes

  1. Lonely Dissent

    Publié: 06/03/2015
  2. On Expressing Your Concerns

    Publié: 06/03/2015
  3. Asch's Conformity Experiment

    Publié: 06/03/2015
  4. Two Cult Koans

    Publié: 06/03/2015
  5. Guardians of Ayn Rand

    Publié: 06/03/2015
  6. Guardians of the Gene Pool

    Publié: 06/03/2015
  7. Guardians of the Truth

    Publié: 06/03/2015
  8. Every Cause Wants to be a Cult

    Publié: 06/03/2015
  9. The Robbers Cave Experiment

    Publié: 06/03/2015
  10. When None Dare Urge Restraint

    Publié: 06/03/2015
  11. Evaporative Cooling of Group Beliefs

    Publié: 06/03/2015
  12. Uncritical Supercriticality

    Publié: 05/03/2015
  13. Resist The Happy Death Spiral

    Publié: 05/03/2015
  14. Affective Death Spirals

    Publié: 05/03/2015
  15. Mere Messiahs

    Publié: 05/03/2015
  16. Superhero Bias

    Publié: 05/03/2015
  17. The Halo Effect

    Publié: 05/03/2015
  18. Unbounded Scales, Huge Jury Awards, and Futurism

    Publié: 05/03/2015
  19. Evaluability (and Cheap Holiday Shopping)

    Publié: 05/03/2015
  20. The Affect Heuristic

    Publié: 05/03/2015

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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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