342 Épisodes

  1. Beginnings: An Introduction

    Publié: 14/03/2015
  2. The Twelve Virtues of Rationality

    Publié: 14/03/2015
  3. Newcomb's Problem and Regret of Rationality

    Publié: 14/03/2015
  4. When (Not) to Use Probabilities

    Publié: 14/03/2015
  5. Something To Protect

    Publié: 14/03/2015
  6. Ethical Injunctions

    Publié: 14/03/2015
  7. Ends Don't Justify Means (Among Humans)

    Publié: 14/03/2015
  8. The "Intuitions" Behind "Utilitarianism"

    Publié: 13/03/2015
  9. Feeling Moral

    Publié: 13/03/2015
  10. Zut Allais!

    Publié: 13/03/2015
  11. The Allais Paradox

    Publié: 13/03/2015
  12. One Life Against the World

    Publié: 13/03/2015
  13. Scope Insensitivty

    Publié: 13/03/2015
  14. The Gift We Give to Tomorrow

    Publié: 13/03/2015
  15. Value is Fragile

    Publié: 13/03/2015
  16. Serious Stories

    Publié: 13/03/2015
  17. High Challenge

    Publié: 13/03/2015
  18. Sympathetic Minds

    Publié: 13/03/2015
  19. The True Prisoner's Dilemma

    Publié: 13/03/2015
  20. Magical Categories

    Publié: 13/03/2015

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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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