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!

    art go forth
    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

    deep theories backed practical advice
    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

    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

    barbarians bayesians
    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

    valley incremental progress
    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

    separately fuzzies
    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

    money 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

    individuals helpless
    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

    rationality common interest
    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

    church task force community church
    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?

    religion match output humanism
    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

    price
    Tolerate Tolerance

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

    tolerance tolerate
    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

    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

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    Schools Proliferating Without Evidence

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

    schools
    Epistemic Visciousness

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

    epistemic
    A Sense That More Is Possible

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

    sense
    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

    raising sanity waterline
    Final Words

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2015 18:23


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

    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!

    impossible shut up
    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

    effort extraordinary
    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

    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

    try harder
    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2015 3:33


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

    instinct egalitarian
    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)

    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

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    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

    god reach beyond the reach
    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

    folly magnitude
    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

    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

    awakening naturalistic
    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

    action truth fighting
    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

    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

    youth folly sheer callow
    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

    prodigy refutation
    Raised in Technophilia

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

    raised
    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

    mistakes best and worst
    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

    childhood death spiral
    Beginnings: An Introduction

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2015 5:08


    Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Beginnings: An Introduction

    beginnings
    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

    twelve virtues 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

    regret 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

    probability
    Something To Protect

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2015 12:31


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

    protect
    Ethical Injunctions

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2015 16:29


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

    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)

    humans ends justify
    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"

    utilitarianism intuitions
    Feeling Moral

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2015 6:29


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

    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

    paradoxes

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