Rationality: From AI to Zombies
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Eliezer Yudkowsky · Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Show overview
Rationality: From AI to Zombies has published 342 episodes during 2015. That works out to roughly 50 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a near-daily cadence.
Episodes typically run under ten minutes — most land between 6 min and 11 min — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language Society & Culture show.
The catalogue appears to be on hiatus or wound down — the most recent episode landed 11.2 years ago, with no new episodes in over a year. Published by Machine Intelligence Research Institute.
From the publisher
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.
Latest Episodes
View all 342 episodesEp 342Go Forth and Create the Art!
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Go Forth and Create the Art!
Ep 341The Sin of Underconfidence
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - The Sin of Underconfidence
Ep 340Practical Advice Backed by Deep Theories
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Practical Advice Backed by Deep Theories
Ep 339Beware of Other-Optimizing
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Beware of Other-Optimizing
Ep 338Bayesians vs. Barbarians
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Bayesians vs. Barbarians
Ep 337Incremental Progress and the Valley
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Incremental Progress and the Valley
Ep 336Purchase Fuzzies and Utilons Separately
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Purchase Fuzzies and Utilons Separately
Ep 335Money: The Unit of Caring
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Money: The Unit of Caring
Ep 334Helpless Individuals
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Helpless Individuals
Ep 333Rationality: Common Interest of Many Causes
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Rationality: Common Interest of Many Causes
Ep 332Church vs. Taskforce
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Church vs. Taskforce
Ep 331Can Humanism Match Religions Output?
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Can Humanism Match Religion's Output?
Ep 330Your Price for Joining
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Your Price for Joining
Ep 329Tolerate Tolerance
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Tolerate Tolerance
Ep 328Why Our Kind Can't Cooperate
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Why Our Kind Can't Cooperate
Ep 327Three Levels of Rationality Verification
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Three Levels of Rationality Verification
Ep 326Schools Proliferating Without Evidence
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Schools Proliferating Without Evidence
Ep 325Epistemic Visciousness
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Epistemic Visciousness
Ep 324A Sense That More Is Possible
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - A Sense That More Is Possible
Ep 323Pt Z Raising the Sanity Waterline
Book VI: Becoming Stronger - Part Z: The Craft and the Community - Raising the Sanity Waterline