How to Actually Change Your Mind

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Machine Intelligence Research Institute, Dec 14, 2018 - Philosophy - 281 pages
Human intelligence is a superweapon: an amazing capacity that has single-handedly put humans in a dominant position on Earth. When human intelligence defeats itself and goes off the rails, the fallout therefore tends to be a uniquely big deal. In How to Actually Change Your Mind, decision theorist Eliezer Yudkowsky asks how we can better identify and sort out our biases, integrate new evidence, and achieve lucidity in our daily lives. Because it really seems as though we should be able to do better--and a three-pound all-purpose superweapon is a terrible thing to waste.

About the author (2018)

Eliezer Yudkowsky is a decision theorist and computer scientist at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute in Berkeley, California who is known for his work in technological forecasting. His publications include the Cambridge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence chapter "The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence," co-authored with Nick Bostrom. Yudkowsky's writings have helped spark a number of ongoing academic and public debates about the long-term impact of AI, and he has written a number of popular introductions to topics in cognitive science and formal epistemology, such as "Rationality: From AI to Zombies" and "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality."

Bibliographic information

TitleHow to Actually Change Your Mind
Book 2 of Rationality : from AI to Zombies, Eliezer Yudkowsky
AuthorEliezer Yudkowsky
PublisherMachine Intelligence Research Institute, 2018
ISBN1939311276, 9781939311276
Length281 pages
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Philosophy / General
  
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