<story><title>Rationality: From AI to Zombies</title><url>https://intelligence.org/2015/03/12/rationality-ai-zombies/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xianshou</author><text>This is a collection of Yudkowsky&amp;#x27;s blog posts on LessWrong, and it&amp;#x27;s making the rounds now because it forms the basis for most of Harry&amp;#x27;s rationalist insights in the extremely entertaining and recently finished Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. (The last chapter of HPMoR went up on Ultimate Pi Day - 3&amp;#x2F;14&amp;#x2F;15 - last week.) I picked it up on the advice of some friends, and while the editing is less than perfect, it is overall an impressively well-organized and cross-linked treatise on how to reason.&lt;p&gt;At the heart of the book is the assertion that rationality is not about justifying why we are &lt;i&gt;right&lt;/i&gt;, but thinking how we might be &lt;i&gt;wrong&lt;/i&gt;, and paying careful attention to any evidence that puzzles us or could convince us to change our minds. The resulting philosophy is a combination of the falsification principle and the scientific method, applied to your own character. Highly recommended.</text></comment>
<story><title>Rationality: From AI to Zombies</title><url>https://intelligence.org/2015/03/12/rationality-ai-zombies/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rkachowski</author><text>That Eliezer Yudkowsky is a pretty smart guy. Against all prior expectations (lol), I am now reading Harry Potter fan fiction and enjoying it.[1] The LessWrong sequences are poignant and concise and pushed me down the road of rational thought.&lt;p&gt;I look forward to getting some of these books on my shelf.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://hpmor.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hpmor.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>