November 03, 2025

Rationality: From AI to Zombies

20 minutes

Focusing on the nature and practice of effective thinking. The author discusses various cognitive biases and logical fallacies, such as the planning fallacy and the fallacy of the excluded middle, emphasizing the contrast between "Traditional Rationality" and the more rigorous, probabilistic approach of Bayesian reasoning. Core themes include the importance of epistemic and instrumental rationality, the difficulty of overcoming self-deception and motivated reasoning, and the need for reductionism to avoid "mysterious answers to mysterious questions" like "emergence." Ultimately, the text advocates for binding one's emotions and beliefs to reality and cultivating a genuine curiosity about the world to improve decision-making and truth-seeking.

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