Rationality: From AI to Zombies

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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 R…

Eliezer Yudkowsky


    • Mar 15, 2015 LATEST EPISODE
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    Go Forth and Create the Art!

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2015 9:41


    Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Go Forth and Create the Art!

    The Sin of Underconfidence

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2015 12:47


    Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - The Sin of Underconfidence

    Practical Advice Backed by Deep Theories

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2015 7:37


    Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Practical Advice Backed by Deep Theories

    Beware of Other-Optimizing

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2015 9:58


    Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Beware of Other-Optimizing

    Bayesians vs. Barbarians

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2015 15:36


    Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Bayesians vs. Barbarians

    Incremental Progress and the Valley

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2015 11:00


    Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Incremental Progress and the Valley

    Purchase Fuzzies and Utilons Separately

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2015 8:45


    Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Purchase Fuzzies and Utilons Separately

    Money: The Unit of Caring

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2015 8:16


    Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Money: The Unit of Caring

    Helpless Individuals

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2015 6:39


    Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Helpless Individuals

    Rationality: Common Interest of Many Causes

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2015 7:56


    Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Rationality: Common Interest of Many Causes

    Church vs. Taskforce

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2015 9:36


    Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Church vs. Taskforce

    Can Humanism Match Religions Output?

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2015 9:39


    Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Can Humanism Match Religion's Output?

    Your Price for Joining

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2015 9:14


    Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Your Price for Joining

    Tolerate Tolerance

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2015 4:36


    Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Tolerate Tolerance

    Why Our Kind Can't Cooperate

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2015 18:49


    Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Why Our Kind Can't Cooperate

    Three Levels of Rationality Verification

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    Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Three Levels of Rationality Verification

    Schools Proliferating Without Evidence

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    Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Schools Proliferating Without Evidence

    Epistemic Visciousness

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    Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Epistemic Visciousness

    A Sense That More Is Possible

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2015 8:55


    Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - A Sense That More Is Possible

    Pt Z Raising the Sanity Waterline

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    Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Raising the Sanity Waterline

    Final Words

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2015 18:23


    Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Y: Challenging the Difficult - Final Words

    Shut Up and Do the Impossible!

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2015 22:25


    Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Y: Challenging the Difficult - Shut Up and Do the Impossible!

    Make an Extraordinary Effort

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2015 9:42


    Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Y: Challenging the Difficult - Make an Extraordinary Effort

    On Doing the Impossible

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2015 14:21


    Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Y: Challenging the Difficult - On Doing the Impossible

    Use the Try Harder, Luke

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2015 4:17


    Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Y: Challenging the Difficult - Use the Try Harder, Luke

    Trying to Try

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2015 7:05


    Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Y: Challenging the Difficult - Trying to Try

    Tsuyoku vs. the Egalitarian Instinct

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    Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Y: Challenging the Difficult - Tsuyoku vs. the Egalitarian Instinct

    Tsuyoki Naritai! (I Want to Become Stronger)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2015 6:35


    Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Y: Challenging the Difficult - Tsuyoki Naritai! (I Want to Become Stronger)

    My Bayesian Enlightenment

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2015 14:46


    Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part X: Yudkowsky's Coming of Age - My Bayesian Enlightenment

    Beyond the Reach of God

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2015 21:46


    Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part X: Yudkowsky's Coming of Age - Beyond the Reach of God

    The Magnitude of His Own Folly

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2015 11:46


    Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part X: Yudkowsky's Coming of Age - The Magnitude of His Own Folly

    The Level Above Mine

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2015 7:00


    Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part X: Yudkowsky's Coming of Age - The Level Above Mine

    My Naturalistic Awakening

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2015 10:45


    Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part X: Yudkowsky's Coming of Age - My Naturalistic Awakening

    Fighting a Rearguard Action Against the Truth

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2015 8:05


    Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part X: Yudkowsky's Coming of Age - Fighting a Rearguard Action Against the Truth

    That Tiny Note of Discord

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2015 13:00


    Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part X: Yudkowsky's Coming of Age - That Tiny Note of Discord

    The Sheer Folly of Callow Youth

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2015 13:51


    Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part X: Yudkowsky's Coming of Age - The Sheer Folly of Callow Youth

    A Prodigy of Refutation

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2015 6:37


    Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part X: Yudkowsky's Coming of Age - A Prodigy of Refutation

    Raised in Technophilia

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2015 11:45


    Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part X: Yudkowsky's Coming of Age - Raised in Technophilia

    My Best and Worst Mistake

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2015 8:56


    Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part X: Yudkowsky's Coming of Age - My Best and Worst Mistake

    My Childhood Death Spiral

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2015 8:32


    Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part X: Yudkowsky's Coming of Age - My Childhood Death Spiral

    Beginnings: An Introduction

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2015 5:08


    Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Beginnings: An Introduction

    The Twelve Virtues of Rationality

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2015 14:18


    Book V: Mere Goodness - Part W: Quantified Humanism - The Twelve Virtues of Rationality

    Newcomb's Problem and Regret of Rationality

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2015 20:26


    Book V: Mere Goodness - Part W: Quantified Humanism - Newcomb's Problem and Regret of Rationality

    When (Not) to Use Probabilities

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2015 11:26


    Book V: Mere Goodness - Part W: Quantified Humanism - When (Not) to Use Probabilities

    Something To Protect

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2015 12:31


    Book V: Mere Goodness - Part W: Quantified Humanism - Something To Protect

    Ethical Injunctions

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2015 16:29


    Book V: Mere Goodness - Part W: Quantified Humanism - Ethical Injunctions

    Ends Don't Justify Means (Among Humans)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2015 8:49


    Book V: Mere Goodness - Part W: Quantified Humanism - Ends Don't Justify Means (Among Humans)

    The "Intuitions" Behind "Utilitarianism"

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2015 17:42


    Book V: Mere Goodness - Part W: Quantified Humanism - The "Intuitions" Behind "Utilitarianism"

    Feeling Moral

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2015 6:29


    Book V: Mere Goodness - Part W: Quantified Humanism - Feeling Moral

    Zut Allais!

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2015 13:12


    Book V: Mere Goodness - Part W: Quantified Humanism - Zut Allais!

    The Allais Paradox

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2015 6:46


    Book V: Mere Goodness - Part W: Quantified Humanism - The Allais Paradox

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