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Rationality: From AI to Zombies
Chapter by Chapter
Written by Eliezer Yudkowsky ; Read by Walter & James

Programming Note: The End

Mar 5, 2022

Part V, Chapter 272: Could Anything Be Right?

Sep 28, 2021

Part V, Chapter 271: Changing Your Metaethics

Jul 9, 2021

Part V, Chapter 270: What Would You Do Without Morality?

May 30, 2021

Part V, Chapter 269: 2-Place and 1-Place Words

Feb 16, 2021

Part V, Chapter 268: Sorting Pebbles into Correct Heaps

Aug 10, 2020

Part V, Chapter 267: Created Already in Motion

Aug 10, 2020

Part V, Chapter 266: No Universally Compelling Arguments

Apr 24, 2020

Part V, Chapter 265: My Kind of Reflection

Apr 9, 2020

Part V, Chapter 264: Where Recursive Justification Hits Bottom

Apr 9, 2020

Part U, Chapter 263: The Design Space of Minds-in-General

Mar 4, 2020

Part U, Chapter 262: Dreams of AI Design

Jan 7, 2020

Part U, Chapter 261: Detached Lever Fallacy

Dec 29, 2019

Part U, Chapter 260: Fake Utility Functions

Dec 18, 2019

Part U, Chapter 259: Fake Morality

Dec 13, 2019

Part U, Chapter 258: Fake Selfishness

Dec 2, 2019

Part U, Chapter 257: Not for the Sake of Happiness (Alone)

Nov 22, 2019

Ends: An Introduction (Rob Bensinger)

Nov 8, 2019

Interlude: A Technical Explanation of Technical Explanation

Nov 8, 2019

Part T, Chapter 256: Class Project

Nov 8, 2019

Part T, Chapter 255: Einstein’s Superpowers

Oct 23, 2019

Part T, Chapter 254: My Childhood Role Model

Oct 15, 2019

Part T, Chapter 253: That Alien Message

Oct 8, 2019

Part T, Chapter 252: Einstein’s Speed

Sep 30, 2019

Part T, Chapter 251: Faster Than Science

Sep 23, 2019

Part T, Chapter 250: Changing the Definition of Science

Sep 16, 2019

Part T, Chapter 249: No Safe Defense, Not Even Science

Sep 3, 2019

Part T, Chapter 248: Do Scientists Already Know This Stuff?

Aug 19, 2019

Part T, Chapter 247: Science Isn’t Strict Enough

Aug 14, 2019

Part T, Chapter 246: When Science Can’t Help

Aug 1, 2019

Part T, Chapter 245: Science Doesn’t Trust Your Rationality

Jul 22, 2019

Part T, Chapter 244: The Dilemma: Science or Bayes?

Jul 9, 2019

Part T, Chapter 243: The Failures of Eld Science

Jun 21, 2019

Part S, Chapter 242: Many Worlds, One Best Guess

Jun 21, 2019

Part S, Chapter 241: Thou Art Physics

Apr 11, 2019

Part S, Chapter 240: Where Philosophy Meets Science

Apr 2, 2019

Part S, Chapter 239: If Many-Worlds Had Come First

Mar 25, 2019

Part S, Chapter 238: Quantum Non-Realism

Mar 19, 2019

Part S, Chapter 237: Living in Many Worlds

Mar 18, 2019

Part S, Chapter 236: Privileging the Hypothesis

Mar 11, 2019

Part S, Chapter 235: Decoherence is Falsifiable and Testable

Mar 6, 2019

Part S, Chapter 234: Decoherence is Simple

Mar 1, 2019

Part S, Chapter 233: Collapse Postulates

Feb 24, 2019

Part S, Chapter 232: Distinct Configurations

Feb 19, 2019

Part S, Chapter 231: Joint Configurations

Feb 15, 2019

Part S, Chapter 230: Configurations and Amplitude

Feb 9, 2019

Part S, Chapter 229: Quantum Explanations

Feb 5, 2019

Part R, Chapter 228: Psychic Powers

Dec 28, 2018

Part R, Chapter 227: Excluding the Supernatural

Dec 17, 2018

Part R, Chapter 226: Zombies: The Movie

Dec 13, 2018

Part R, Chapter 225: Belief in the Implied Invisible

Dec 3, 2018

Part R, Chapter 224: GAZP vs. GLUT

Nov 28, 2018

Part R, Chapter 223: The Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle

Nov 19, 2018

Part R, Chapter 222: Zombie Responses

Nov 19, 2018

Part R, Chapter 221: Zombies! Zombies?

Nov 9, 2018

Part R, Chapter 220: Reductive Reference

Oct 22, 2018

Part R, Chapter 219: A Priori

Oct 15, 2018

Part R, Chapter 218: When Anthropomorphism Became Stupid

Oct 10, 2018

Part R, Chapter 217: Brain Breakthrough! It's Made of Neurons!

Oct 1, 2018

Part R, Chapter 216: Heat vs. Motion

Sep 26, 2018

Part R, Chapter 215: Angry Atoms

Sep 14, 2018

Part R, Chapter 214: Hand vs. Fingers

Sep 9, 2018

Part Q, Chapter 213: Initiation Ceremony

Sep 8, 2018

Part Q, Chapter 212: To Spread Science, Keep It Secret

Aug 20, 2018

Part Q, Chapter 211: The Sacred Mundane

Aug 14, 2018

Part Q, Chapter 210: Scarcity

Aug 9, 2018

Part Q, Chapter 209: Is Humanism a Religion Substitute?

Aug 1, 2018

Part Q, Chapter 208: Amazing Breakthrough Day: April 1st

Jul 23, 2018

Part Q, Chapter 207: The Beauty of Settled Science

Jul 22, 2018

Part Q, Chapter 206: Mundane Magic

Jul 17, 2018

Part Q, Chapter 205: If You Demand Magic, Magic Won't Help

Jul 17, 2018

Part Q, Chapter 204: Bind Yourself to Reality

Jul 8, 2018

Part Q, Chapter 203: Joy in Discovery

Jul 8, 2018

Part Q, Chapter 202: Joy in the Merely Real

Jul 2, 2018

Part P, Chapter 201: Savannah Poets

Jun 26, 2018

Part P, Chapter 200: Fake Reductionism

Jun 26, 2018

Part P, Chapter 199: Explaining vs. Explaining Away

May 21, 2018

Part P, Chapter 198: Reductionism

May 5, 2018

Part P, Chapter 197: Chaotic Inversion

Apr 23, 2018

Part P, Chapter 196: Think Like Reality

Apr 23, 2018

Part P, Chapter 195: Qualitatively Confused

Apr 23, 2018

Part P, Chapter 194: The Quotation is Not the Referent

Mar 6, 2018

Part P, Chapter 193: Probability is in the Mind

Jan 29, 2018

Part P, Chapter 192: Mind Projection Fallacy

Jan 26, 2018

Part P, Chapter 191: Righting a Wrong Question

Jan 21, 2018

Part P, Chapter 190: Wrong Questions

Jan 15, 2018

Part P, Chapter 189: Dissolving the Question

Jan 11, 2018

Part O, Chapter 188: Searching for Bayes-Structure

Dec 31, 2017

Part O, Chapter 187: Perpetual Motion Beliefs

Dec 25, 2017

Part O, Chapter 186: The Second Law of Thermodynamics, and Engines of Cognition

Dec 21, 2017

Part O, Chapter 185: Outside the Laboratory

Dec 16, 2017

Part O, Chapter 184: Beautiful Probability

Dec 16, 2017

Part O, Chapter 183: Is Reality Ugly?

Dec 11, 2017

Part O, Chapter 182: Universal Law

Dec 11, 2017

Part O, Chapter 181: Universal Fire

Dec 4, 2017

The World: An Introduction (Rob Bensinger)

Dec 4, 2017

Interlude: An Intuitive Explanation of Bayes’s Theorem

Nov 29, 2017

Part N, Chapter 180: 37 Ways That Words Can Be Wrong

Nov 12, 2017

Part N, Chapter 179: Variable Question Fallacies

Nov 5, 2017

Part N, Chapter 178: Words as Mental Paintbrush Handles

Nov 3, 2017

Part N, Chapter 177: Conditional Independence, and Naive Bayes

Nov 1, 2017

Part N, Chapter 176: Superexponential Conceptspace, and Simple Words

Nov 1, 2017

Part N, Chapter 175: Mutual Information, and Density in Thingspace

Nov 1, 2017

Part N, Chapter 174: Entropy, and Short Codes

Oct 26, 2017

Part N, Chapter 173: Where to Draw the Boundary?

Oct 26, 2017

Part N, Chapter 172: Arguing “By Definition”

Oct 26, 2017

Part N, Chapter 171: Sneaking in Connotations

Oct 18, 2017

Part N, Chapter 170: Categorizing Has Consequences

Oct 16, 2017

Part N, Chapter 169: Fallacies of Compression

Oct 9, 2017

Part N, Chapter 168: Replace the Symbol with the Substance

Oct 9, 2017

Part N, Chapter 167: Taboo Your Words

Oct 5, 2017

Part N, Chapter 166: Empty Labels

Oct 2, 2017

Part N, Chapter 165: The Argument from Common Usage

Sep 30, 2017

Part N, Chapter 164: Feel the Meaning

Sep 27, 2017

Part N, Chapter 163: Disputing Definitions

Sep 19, 2017

Part N, Chapter 162: How An Algorithm Feels From Inside

Sep 12, 2017

Part N, Chapter 161: Neural Categories

Sep 9, 2017

Part N, Chapter 160: Disguised Queries

Sep 6, 2017

Part N, Chapter 159: The Cluster Structure of Thingspace

Aug 30, 2017

Part N, Chapter 158: Typicality and Asymmetrical Similarity

Aug 27, 2017

Part N, Chapter 157: Similarity Clusters

Aug 24, 2017

Part N, Chapter 156: Extensions and Intensions

Aug 22, 2017

Part N, Chapter 155: Words as Hidden Inferences

Aug 20, 2017

Part N, Chapter 154: The Parable of Hemlock

Aug 18, 2017

Part N, Chapter 153: The Parable of the Dagger

Aug 16, 2017

Jul 1, 2017

Part M, Chapter 152: Lost Purposes

Jul 1, 2017

Part M, Chapter 151: Anthropomorphic Optimism

Jun 16, 2017

Part M, Chapter 150: The Hidden Complexity of Wishes

Jun 16, 2017

Part M, Chapter 149: Leaky Generalizations

Jun 14, 2017

Part M, Chapter 148: Terminal Values and Instrumental Values

Jun 14, 2017

Part M, Chapter 147: Artificial Addition

Jun 14, 2017

Part M, Chapter 146: Ghosts in the Machine

Jun 12, 2017

Part M, Chapter 145: Optimization and the Intelligence Explosion

Jun 9, 2017

Part M, Chapter 144: Humans in Funny Suits

Jun 9, 2017

Part M, Chapter 143: Belief in Intelligence

Jun 7, 2017

Part L, Chapter 142: Thou Art Godshatter

Jun 6, 2017

Part L, Chapter 141: Superstimuli and the Collapse of Western Civilization

Jun 2, 2017

Part L, Chapter 140: An Especially Elegant Evolutionary Psychology Experiment

Jun 1, 2017

Part L, Chapter 139: Evolutionary Psychology

May 31, 2017

Part L, Chapter 138: Adaptation-Executers, Not Fitness-Maximizers

May 30, 2017

Part L, Chapter 137: Fake Optimization Criteria

May 29, 2017

Part L, Chapter 136: The Tragedy of Group Selectionism

May 28, 2017

Part L, Chapter 135: Evolving to Extinction

May 27, 2017

Part L, Chapter 134: No Evolutions for Corporations or Nanodevices

May 26, 2017

Part L, Chapter 133: Evolutions Are Stupid (But Work Anyway)

May 25, 2017

Part L, Chapter 132: The Wonder of Evolution

May 24, 2017

Part L, Chapter 131: An Alien God

May 23, 2017

Minds: An Introduction (Rob Bensinger)

May 11, 2017

Interlude: The Power of Intelligence

May 11, 2017

Part K, Chapter 130: The Ritual

May 5, 2017

Part K, Chapter 129: Crisis of Faith

May 4, 2017

Part K, Chapter 128: Leave a Line of Retreat

May 4, 2017

Part K, Chapter 127: No One Can Exempt You From Rationality’s Laws”

May 2, 2017

Part K, Chapter 126: The Meditation on Curiosity

Apr 30, 2017

Part K, Chapter 125: You Can Face Reality

Apr 30, 2017

Part K, Chapter 124: The Proper Use of Doubt

Apr 29, 2017

Part K, Chapter 123: Just Lose Hope Already

Apr 28, 2017

Part K, Chapter 122: The Crackpot Offer

Apr 28, 2017

Part K, Chapter 121: The Importance of Saying “Oops”

Apr 26, 2017

Part J, Chapter 120: Cultish Countercultishness

Apr 25, 2017

Part J, Chapter 119: Lonely Dissent

Apr 25, 2017

Part J, Chapter 118: On Expressing Your Concerns

Apr 23, 2017

Part J, Chapter 117: Asch's Conformity Experiment

Apr 23, 2017

Part J, Chapter 116: Two Cult Koans

Apr 22, 2017

Part J, Chapter 115: Guardians of Ayn Rand

Apr 21, 2017

Part J, Chapter 114: Guardians of the Gene Pool

Apr 21, 2017

Part J, Chapter 113: Guardians of the Truth

Apr 21, 2017

Part J, Chapter 112: Every Cause Wants to Be a Cult

Apr 18, 2017

Part J, Chapter 111: The Robbers Cave Experiment

Apr 17, 2017

Part J, Chapter 110: When None Dare Urge Restraint

Apr 16, 2017

Part J, Chapter 109: Evaporative Cooling of Group Beliefs

Apr 15, 2017

Part J, Chapter 108: Uncritical Supercriticality

Apr 14, 2017

Part J, Chapter 107: Resist the Happy Death Spiral

Apr 13, 2017

Part J, Chapter 106: Affective Death Spirals

Apr 12, 2017

Part J, Chapter 105: Mere Messiahs

Apr 11, 2017

Part J, Chapter 104: Superhero Bias

Apr 10, 2017

Part J, Chapter 103: The Halo Effect

Apr 10, 2017

Part J, Chapter 102: Unbounded Scales, Huge Jury Awards, and Futurism

Apr 8, 2017

Part J, Chapter 101: Evaluability (and Cheap Holiday Shopping)

Apr 7, 2017

Part J, Chapter 100: The Affect Heuristic

Apr 6, 2017

Part I, Chapter 99: The Genetic Fallacy

Apr 5, 2017

Part I, Chapter 98: Hold Off On Proposing Solutions

Apr 4, 2017

Part I, Chapter 97: We Change Our Minds Less Often Than We Think

Apr 1, 2017

Part I, Chapter 96: How to Seem (and Be) Deep

Mar 30, 2017

Part I, Chapter 95: The Virtue of Narrowness

Mar 29, 2017

Part I, Chapter 94: The Logical Fallacy of Generalization from Fictional Evidence

Mar 28, 2017

Part I, Chapter 93: Stranger than History

Mar 27, 2017

Part I, Chapter 92: Original Seeing

Mar 26, 2017

Part I, Chapter 91: The “Outside the Box” Box

Mar 26, 2017

Part I, Chapter 90: Cached Thoughts

Mar 24, 2017

Part I, Chapter 89: Do We Believe Everything We’re Told?

Mar 23, 2017

Part I, Chapter 88: Priming and Contamination

Mar 22, 2017

Part I, Chapter 87: Anchoring and Adjustment

Mar 21, 2017

Part H, Chapter 86: Don’t Believe You’ll Self-Deceive

Mar 19, 2017

Part H, Chapter 85: Moore’s Paradox

Mar 19, 2017

Part H, Chapter 84: Belief in Self-Deception

Mar 18, 2017

Part H, Chapter 83: No, Really, I’ve Deceived Myself

Mar 17, 2017

Part H, Chapter 82: Doublethink (Choosing to be Biased)

Mar 16, 2017

Part H, Chapter 81: Singlethink

Mar 15, 2017

Part G, Chapter 80: Dark Side Epistemology

Mar 14, 2017

Part G, Chapter 79: Of Lies and Black Swan Blowups

Mar 14, 2017

Part G, Chapter 78: Entangled Truths, Contagious Lies

Mar 13, 2017

Part G, Chapter 77: Is That Your True Rejection?

Mar 13, 2017

Part G, Chapter 76: Fake Justification

Mar 12, 2017

Part G, Chapter 75: Motivated Stopping and Motivated Continuation

Mar 11, 2017

Part G, Chapter 74: Avoiding Your Belief ’s Real Weak Points

Mar 10, 2017

Part G, Chapter 73: A Rational Argument

Mar 9, 2017

Part G, Chapter 72: Rationalization

Mar 9, 2017

Part G, Chapter 71: What Evidence Filtered Evidence?

Mar 7, 2017

Part G, Chapter 70: The Bottom Line

Mar 6, 2017

Part G, Chapter 69: One Argument Against An Army

Mar 5, 2017

Part G, Chapter 68: Update Yourself Incrementally

Mar 4, 2017

Part G, Chapter 67: Knowing About Biases Can Hurt People

Mar 3, 2017

Part F, Chapter 66: Human Evil and Muddled Thinking

Mar 2, 2017

Part F, Chapter 65: Rationality and the English Language

Mar 1, 2017

Part F, Chapter 64: Hug the Query

Feb 28, 2017

Part F, Chapter 63: Argument Screens Off Authority

Feb 27, 2017

Part F, Chapter 62: Reversed Stupidity Is Not Intelligence

Feb 26, 2017

Part F, Chapter 61: Are Your Enemies Innately Evil?

Feb 25, 2017

Part F, Chapter 60: Correspondence Bias

Feb 24, 2017

Part F, Chapter 59: The Scales of Justice, the Notebook of Rationality

Feb 23, 2017

Part F, Chapter 58: Policy Debates Should Not Appear One-Sided

Feb 22, 2017

Part F, Chapter 57: Politics is the Mind-Killer

Feb 21, 2017

Part E, Chapter 56: Your Rationality Is My Business

Feb 20, 2017

Part E, Chapter 55: 0 And 1 Are Not Probabilities

Feb 19, 2017

Bonus Minisode: Peter De Blanc's Amusing Anecdote

Feb 18, 2017

Part E, Chapter 54: Infinite Certainty

Feb 18, 2017

Part E, Chapter 53: How to Convince Me That 2 + 2 = 3

Feb 18, 2017

Part E, Chapter 52: Absolute Authority

Feb 16, 2017

Part E, Chapter 51: The Fallacy of Gray

Feb 15, 2017

Part E, Chapter 50: But There's Still a Chance, Right?

Feb 14, 2017

Part E, Chapter 49: New Improved Lottery

Feb 13, 2017

Part E, Chapter 48: Lotteries: A Waste of Hope

Feb 12, 2017

Part E, Chapter 47: The Third Alternative

Feb 11, 2017

Part E, Chapter 46: The Proper Use of Humility

Feb 10, 2017

Rationality: An Introduction (Rob Bensinger)

Feb 9, 2017

Interlude: The Simple Truth

Feb 8, 2017

Part D, Chapter 45: Truly Part of You

Feb 5, 2017

Part D, Chapter 44: "Science" as Curiosity-Stopper

Feb 5, 2017

Part D, Chapter 43: Explain/Worship/Ignore?

Feb 3, 2017

Part D, Chapter 42: Making History Available

Feb 2, 2017

Part D, Chapter 41: Failing to Learn from History

Feb 1, 2017

Part D, Chapter 40: My Wild and Reckless Youth

Jan 31, 2017

Part D, Chapter 39: Lawful Uncertainty

Jan 30, 2017

Part D, Chapter 38: Positive Bias: Look into the Dark

Jan 29, 2017

Part D, Chapter 37: Say Not "Complexity"

Jan 28, 2017

Part D, Chapter 36: The Futility of Emergence

Jan 27, 2017

Part D, Chapter 35: Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions

Jan 26, 2017

Part D, Chapter 34: Semantic Stopsigns

Jan 25, 2017

Part D, Chapter 33: Fake Causality

Jan 24, 2017

Part D, Chapter 32: Science as Attire

Jan 23, 2017

Part D, Chapter 31: Guessing the Teacher's Password

Jan 22, 2017

Part D, Chapter 30: Fake Explanations

Jan 21, 2017

Part C, Chapter 29: Hindsight Devalues Science

Jan 20, 2017

Part C, Chapter 28: Conservation of Expected Evidence

Jan 19, 2017

Part C, Chapter 27: Absence of Evidence Is Evidence of Absence

Jan 18, 2017

Part C, Chapter 26: Your Strength as a Rationalist

Jan 17, 2017

Part C, Chapter 25: Occam’s Razor

Jan 16, 2017

Part C, Chapter 24: Einstein's Arrogance

Jan 15, 2017

Part C, Chapter 23: How Much Evidence Does It Take?

Jan 14, 2017

Part C, Chapter 22: Scientific Evidence, Legal Evidence, Rational Evidence

Jan 13, 2017

Part C, Chapter 21: What Is Evidence?

Jan 12, 2017

Part C, Chapter 20: Focus Your Uncertainty

Jan 11, 2017

Part B, Chapter 19: Applause Lights

Jan 5, 2017

Part B, Chapter 18: Belief as Attire

Jan 5, 2017

Part B, Chapter 17: Professing and Cheering

Jan 5, 2017

Part B, Chapter 16: Religion’s Claim to be Non-Disprovable

Jan 5, 2017

Part B, Chapter 15: Pretending to be Wise

Jan 5, 2017

Part B, Chapter 14: Bayesian Judo

Jan 5, 2017

Part B, Chapter 13: Belief in Belief

Jan 5, 2017

Part B, Chapter 12: A Fable of Science and Politics

Jan 5, 2017

Part B, Chapter 11: Making Beliefs Pay Rent (in Anticipated Experiences)

Jan 5, 2017

Part A, Chapter 10: The Lens That Sees Its Own Flaws

Jan 1, 2017

Part A, Chapter 9: Expecting Short Inferential Distances

Jan 1, 2017

Part A, Chapter 8: Illusion of Transparency: Why No One Understands You

Jan 1, 2017

Part A, Chapter 7: Planning Fallacy

Jan 1, 2017

Part A, Chapter 6: Burdensome Details

Jan 1, 2017

Part A, Chapter 5: Availability

Jan 1, 2017

Part A, Chapter 4: ... What's a Bias, again?

Jan 1, 2017

Part A, Chapter 3: Why Truth? And...

Jan 1, 2017

Part A, Chapter 2: Feeling Rational

Jan 1, 2017

Part A, Chapter 1: What Do I Mean By "Rationality"?

Jan 1, 2017

Biases: An Introduction (Rob Bensinger)

Jan 1, 2017

Rationality: From AI to Zombies -- Preface

Jan 1, 2017

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