Society & Culture

Rationality: From AI to Zombies

Machine Intelligence Research Institute

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 y...

Episodes

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Go Forth and Create the Art!

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

9:41Mar 16, 2015

The Sin of Underconfidence

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

12:47Mar 16, 2015

Practical Advice Backed by Deep Theories

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

7:37Mar 16, 2015

Beware of Other-Optimizing

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

9:58Mar 15, 2015

Bayesians vs. Barbarians

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

15:36Mar 15, 2015

Incremental Progress and the Valley

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

11:09Mar 15, 2015

Purchase Fuzzies and Utilons Separately

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

8:45Mar 15, 2015

Money: The Unit of Caring

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

8:16Mar 15, 2015

Helpless Individuals

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

6:39Mar 15, 2015

Rationality: Common Interest of Many Causes

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

7:56Mar 15, 2015

Church vs. Taskforce

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

9:36Mar 15, 2015

Can Humanism Match Religions Output?

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

9:39Mar 15, 2015

Your Price for Joining

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

9:14Mar 15, 2015

Tolerate Tolerance

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

4:36Mar 15, 2015

Why Our Kind Can't Cooperate

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

18:49Mar 15, 2015

Three Levels of Rationality Verification

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

6:13Mar 15, 2015

Schools Proliferating Without Evidence

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

5:30Mar 15, 2015

Epistemic Visciousness

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

4:50Mar 15, 2015

A Sense That More Is Possible

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

8:55Mar 15, 2015

Pt Z Raising the Sanity Waterline

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

6:20Mar 15, 2015