342 Épisodes

  1. What Is Evidence?

    Publié: 02/03/2015
  2. Focus Your Uncertainty

    Publié: 02/03/2015
  3. Applause Lights

    Publié: 02/03/2015
  4. Belief as Attire

    Publié: 01/03/2015
  5. Professing and Cheering

    Publié: 01/03/2015
  6. Religion's Claim to be Non-Disprovable

    Publié: 01/03/2015
  7. Pretending to be Wise

    Publié: 01/03/2015
  8. Bayesian Judo

    Publié: 01/03/2015
  9. Belief in Belief

    Publié: 01/03/2015
  10. A Fable of Science and Politics

    Publié: 01/03/2015
  11. Making Beliefs Pay Rent (in Anticipated Experiences)

    Publié: 01/03/2015
  12. The Lens That Sees Its Own Flaws

    Publié: 01/03/2015
  13. Expecting Short Inferential Distances

    Publié: 01/03/2015
  14. Illusion of Transparency: Why No One Understands You

    Publié: 01/03/2015
  15. Planning Fallacy

    Publié: 01/03/2015
  16. Burdensome Details

    Publié: 01/03/2015
  17. Availability

    Publié: 01/03/2015
  18. ...What's a Bias Again?

    Publié: 01/03/2015
  19. Why Truth? And...

    Publié: 01/03/2015
  20. Feeling Rational

    Publié: 01/03/2015

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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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