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Rationality: From AI to Zombies by Eliezer Yudkowsky This book changed the way I approach problems in my personal and professional life. It has helped me to r
by kineticpayload 10y ago
Rationality: From AI to Zombies by Eliezer Yudkowsky
This book changed the way I approach problems in my personal and professional life. It has helped me to reflect on any given thought and understand where the thought comes from and where is could be leading me. It's been really enlightening to reflect on my own cognition through the tools and examples of Yudkowsky's book. It's long and dense, but is by far the best book I've read in the last few years.
- hyperbeing 10y agoThe conviction in his tone and how he wears rationality like a cape, the book helped me understand the meaning of rationality, the map and the territory and power of beliefs to predict and also acknowledge the existence of an objective reality. Its sort of a journey down the rabbit hole for me.
- majewsky 10y agoLooks like I got to check this out. I read Yudkowsky's "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality" [1] a few years back. It made me want to pursue this line of thinking further, but being a work of fiction, it doesn't really offer a clear set of tools. (I wouldn't say that this book fundamentally changed the way I think though. It's mostly the continuation of a path that started with a brief, but intense study of Descartes in teenage years.) [1] Available for free in all formats at http://www.hpmor.com/ http://www.hpmor.com/