342 Épisodes

  1. Failing to Learn from History

    Publié: 02/03/2015
  2. My Wild and Reckless Youth

    Publié: 02/03/2015
  3. Lawful Uncertainty

    Publié: 02/03/2015
  4. Positive Bias-Look Into the Dark

    Publié: 02/03/2015
  5. Say Not "Complexity"

    Publié: 02/03/2015
  6. The Futility of Emergence

    Publié: 02/03/2015
  7. Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions

    Publié: 02/03/2015
  8. Semantic Stopsigns

    Publié: 02/03/2015
  9. Fake Causality

    Publié: 02/03/2015
  10. Science as Attire

    Publié: 02/03/2015
  11. Guessing the Teacher's Password

    Publié: 02/03/2015
  12. Fake Explanations

    Publié: 02/03/2015
  13. Hindsight Devalues Science

    Publié: 02/03/2015
  14. Conservation of Expected Evidence

    Publié: 02/03/2015
  15. Absence of Evidence is Evidence of Absence

    Publié: 02/03/2015
  16. Your Strength as a Rationalist

    Publié: 02/03/2015
  17. Occam's Razor

    Publié: 02/03/2015
  18. Einstein's Arrogance

    Publié: 02/03/2015
  19. How Much Evidence Does It Take?

    Publié: 02/03/2015
  20. Scientific Evidence, Legal Evidence, Rational Evidence

    Publié: 02/03/2015

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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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