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Rationality: From AI to Zombies by [Yudkowsky, Eliezer]
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  • Publisher: Machine Intelligence Research Institute (11 Mar. 2015)
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Christmas 1982, aged eleven, I gave my Dad a copy of Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach, and immediately borrowed it and read it myself. Like so many readers, I was captivated, and changed. Martin Gardner said of it: “Every few decades, an unknown author brings out a book of such depth, clarity, range, wit, beauty and originality that it is recognized at once as a major literary event.” Nothing could take its place as the biggest influence on my thought—until a quarter century later, when I started reading daily essays by Eliezer Yudkowsky on the blog Overcoming Bias. Out of those essays came a community with thousands of participants and meetups in over fifty locations worldwide. Now, they have been edited, organised, and combined with other writing by Yudkowsky and by Rob Bensinger to make this extraordinary work, Rationality: From AI to Zombies.

The two bear close comparison. Both GEB and RAZ take the reader on an eclectic journey through science, art and philosophy, drawing on the tropes of Eastern philosophy as well as Western popular science. Both are borne of contemplation of artificial intelligence, but their subject is the human mind. Like GEB, each diversion in RAZ is fascinating in its own right, but each makes a real and important contribution to a central theme. Among other things RAZ discusses the mathematics of probability and decision making, the foibles of human psychology, evolution, quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, and the philosophy of reason, of mind and of morality.
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You're almost bound to learn a lot about rational thought from this book. I would say this even if you've read other books on rationality and logic and are familiar with issues like how cognitive biases affect decision making. The author seems to have a knack for coming up with examples that will make you wonder why you never thought about an issue that way before. It's definitely going to give me new tools for approaching problems and decisions.

I'm about a third through and I think the book could maybe have done with a tighter edit from the source material. Some of the topics in successive sections overlap and repeat a bit. BTW If you read while offline you'll miss out following many fascinating links.
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Yudkowsky has a quirky style and sometimes assumes too much technical knowledge for the average reader. But he says some important things, and often he says them more clearly and memorably than anyone else I can think of.
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fantastic read. like to think through a chapter each night because that's what you do with this book, you learn how to think
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Good, thought provoking stuff but very obviously a collection of short essays.
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