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Rationality: From AI to Zombies [Audiobook]

Posted By: IrGens
Rationality: From AI to Zombies [Audiobook]

Rationality: From AI to Zombies [Audiobook] by Eliezer Yudkowsky
English | ISBN: n/a | MP3@192 kbps + EPUB | 55 hrs 38 mins | 4.24 GB
Narrator: George Thomas

What does it actually mean to be rational? Not Hollywood-style “rational,” where one rejects all human feeling to embrace Cold Hard Logic — real rationality, of the sort studied by psychologists, social scientists, and mathematicians. 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. In the process, Rationality: From AI to Zombies delves into the human significance of correct reasoning more deeply than you’ll find in a conventional textbook on cognitive science or philosophy of mind.

A decision theorist and researcher at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, Yudkowsky published earlier drafts of his writings, “the Sequences,” to the websites Overcoming Bias and Less Wrong. Rationality: From AI to Zombies compiles six volumes of Yudkowsky’s essays into a single electronic text. Collectively, these linked essays serve as a rich and lively introduction to the science — and the art — of human rationality.

Rationality: From AI to Zombies is now available in three recorded volumes. Narrated by news director and public speaker George Thomas and supported by Castify, the audio series allows you to read essays from this collection while walking your dog or driving to work.

It contains the following sequences:

Predictably Wrong
Fake Beliefs
Noticing Confusion
Mysterious Answers
Overly Convenient Excuses
Politics and Rationality
Against Rationalization
Against Doublethink
Seeing with Fresh Eyes
Death Spirals
Letting Go

It contains the following sequences:

The Simple Math of Evolution
Fragile Purposes
A Human’s Guide to Words
Lawful Truth
Reductionism 101
Joy in the Merely Real
Physicalism 201
Quantum Physics and Many Worlds
Science and Rationality

It contains the following sequences:

Fake Preferences
Value Theory
Quantified Humanism
Yudkowsky’s Coming of Age
Challenging the Difficult
The Craft and the Community