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Exactly what does it actually mean to be logical? Not Hollywood-style "rational", where you forsake all human being feeling to adopt Cold Hard Reasoning. Real rationality, of the type examined by psychologists, communal scientists, and mathematicians. The type 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 realize and make full use of your fuzzy intuitions and emotions, rather than trying to discard them. In Rationality: From AI to Zombies, Eliezer Yudkowsky points out the science underlying people irrationality with a variety of fables, argumentative essays, and personal vignettes. These eye-opening accounts of how the head works (and how, frequently, it generally does not!) are then put to the test through some genuinely difficult puzzles: computer scientists' debates about the future of artificial intellect (AI), physicists' debates about the partnership between the quantum and traditional worlds, philosophers' debates about the metaphysics of zombies and the nature of morality, and many more. Along the way, Rationality: From AI to Zombies delves into the human significance of correct reasoning deeper than you will discover in any standard textbook on cognitive technology or idea of mind. A decision theorist and researcher at the Machine Intellect Research Institute, Yudkowsky released prior drafts of his writings to the websites Conquering Bias and Less Wrong. Rationality: From AI to Zombies compiles six quantities of Yudkowsky's essays into an individual audiobook. Collectively, these sequences of connected essays serve as a wealthy and lively benefits to the technology - and the skill - of human being rationality.
