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What does it actually mean to be rational Not Hollywood style rational, where you forsake 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 computer scientists debates about the future of artificial intelligence AI , physicists debates about the relationship between the quantum and classical worlds, philosophers debates about the metaphysics of zombies and the nature of morality, and many In the process, Rationality From AI to Zombies delves into the human significance of correct reasoning deeply than you ll find in any 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 to the websites Overcoming Bias and Less Wrong Rationality From AI to Zombies compiles six volumes of Yudkowsky s essays into a single electronic tome Collectively, these sequences of linked essays serve as a rich and lively introduction to the science and the art of human rationality. Free Download Rationality [ By ] Eliezer Yudkowsky [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr Confession The ideas in this book helped shape my identity and gave my life a direction.Do you,a want to improve yourself as a human being, orb think that Nah, I m pretty much fine the way I currently am If you said yes to either question, this book is for you It is a revelation that will make you a better human being And the fact remains that it is usually those who think themselves wise that need a wake up call the most.You will learn that you are wrong about most of the things most of Confession The ideas in this book helped shape my identity and gave my life a direction.Do you,a want to improve yourself as a human being, orb think that Nah, I m pretty much fine the...If I could have read just one book in my whole life, this would be it.Whew, I have finally finished Rationality from AI to Zombies by Eliezer Yudkowsky, which is a collection of his posts from overcomingbias.com and lesswrong.com, organized in sequences sequences of posts on the same topic.What does it mean to be rational Why is that a good idea to act rationally What prevents us from making optimal decisions How can we fix ourselves Do we even need fixing if we feel happy Why rationalists are notsuccessful than other people This large collecti Whew, I have finally finished Rationality from AI to Zombies by Eliezer Yudkowsky, which is a collection of his posts from overcomingbias.com and lesswrong.com, organized in sequences sequences of posts on the same topic.What does it mean to be rational Why is that a good idea to act rationally What prevents us from making optimal decisions How can we fix ourselves Do we even need fixing if we feel happy Why rationalists are notsuccessful than other people This large collection of essays explores huge number of questions, including the ones above It will help you understand human brain, evolution, quantum mechanics, foundations of science, probability the...Do you consider yourself rational Do you think being rational is important After reading this book, my answers to these questions are not very much at all and it s the most important thing in the world More than anything I ve read before, this book gives me the sense of being important, in a way that ifpeople read this book and get it then the world would be a much, much nicer place to live.So, what s this b...Disclaimer I haven t finished this book, but there are a couple things I want to say about it anyway.I ve given up trying to get friends and family to read Yudkowsky s writings There is a certain sort of person that is excited by applied rationality and I ve only met one of those people outside of something like Hacker News or the Less Wrong mailing lists You should read this book, it could change your life and the way you look at the world, just like it changed me.Maybe you d prefer Harry Po Disclaimer I haven t finished this book, but there are a couple things I want to say about it anyway.I ve given up trying to get friends and family to read Yudkowsky s writings There is a certain sort of person that is excited by applied rationality and I ve only met one of those people outside of something like Hacker News or the Less Wrong mailing lists You should read this book, it could change your life and the way you look at the world, just like it changed me.Maybe you d prefer Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality Yes, it s fanfic, and it s totally ruined the canon HP stories for me But given my experiences, you probably won t be into it for reasons I completely fail to understand.This book pulls together many of the great blog posts from Eliezer see It s great to have them in a sing...Did not finish, read about a third Full of thought provoking comments and logic But written as a collection of essays with an incessant anti religion theme Tried to keep plowing through, but gave up His definition of rationality and belief in the divine don t seem to be compatible Favorite quo...For somebody engaged in the rationalist community and Yudkowsky s other work, AI to Zombies is an epic tome filled with insight, terror, humor, and context around rationality, AI risk, and philosophy It s very rough around the edges in pacing and tone, though, so ha...Mo da najbitnija i najutjecajnija knjiga koju sam pro itao u ivotu Te ko je dati kratak odgovor za to Mo da zato to, ako ulo i trud u to da je ne samo shvati , nego i primijeni , vrlo brzo se zna ajno promijeni kao osoba Barem ja jesam Ali i dalje prepo...33h 1.5x Contents view spoiler Yudkowsky E 2015 49 41 Rationality From AI to ZombiesPreface Eliezer Yudkowsky, February 2015 Biases An Introduction by Rob Bensinger Rational Feelings The Many Faces of Bias A Word About This Text Map and TerritoryBook I Map and TerritoryA Predictably Wrong001 What Do I Mean By Rationality 002 Feeling Rational003 Why Truth And .004 What s a Bias, Again 005 Availability006 Burdensome Details007 Planning Fallacy008 Illusion 33h 1.5x Contents view spoiler Yudkowsky E 2015 49 41 Rationality From AI to ZombiesPreface Eliezer Yudkowsky, February 2015 Biases An Introduction by Rob Bensinger Rational Feelings The Many Faces of Bias A Word About This Text Map and Te...Reviewed as part of my 100 books challenge Sentence SummaryRationality, a long and meandering collection of posts from the blog Less Wrong, purports to instruct people how to leverage probability and and understanding human biases to be better but squanders the premise digressing and bashing religion.ImpressionsThe promise of this book is enticing We are told that by learning to behave rationally, we will behaveoptimally and see the worldcl Reviewed as part of my 100 books challenge Sentence SummaryRationality, a long and meandering collection of posts from the blog Less Wrong, purports to instruct people how to leverage probability and and understanding human biases to be better but squanders the premise digressing and bashing religion.ImpressionsThe promise of this book is enticing We are told that by learning to behave rationally, we will behaveoptimally and see the worldclearly I was hoping for something technical, and at times it delivered There lots of fancy terms, such as his Conservation of Expected Evidence, which states that The expectation of the posterior probability, after viewing the evidence, must equal the prior probability P H P H,E P H, E P H P H E P E P H, E P E Therefore, for every expectation of evidence, there is an equal and opposite expectation of counterevidence For example, he cites how during WWII, it ...

Rationality
  • English
  • 27 June 2017
  • Kindle Edition
  • 1813 pages
  • Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • Rationality