harry potter and the methods of rationality by eliezer yudkowsky

The fan fiction spans one year, covering Harry's first year in Hogwarts.

It adapts the story of Harry Potter to explain complex concepts in cognitive science, philosophy, and the scientific method. In early 2009, he helped to found Less Wrong, a 'community blog devoted to refining the art of human rationality.' The Sequences on Less Wrong, comprising over two years of blog posts on epistemology, Artificial Intelligence, and metaethics, constitute the largest portion of Yudkowsky's writing.Ī Harry Potter fan fiction by Eliezer Yudkowsky, written to promote the rationality skills he advocates on his community blog LessWrong. Over 300 blog posts by Eliezer Yudkowsky on philosophy and science were published as an ebook entitled Rationality: From AI to Zombies by the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) in 2015. Yudkowsky was, along with Robin Hanson, one of the principal contributors to the blog Overcoming Bias sponsored by the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. In addition to his academic work, Yudkowsky has written explanations of various philosophical topics in non-academic language, particularly on rationality, such as 'An Intuitive Explanation of Bayes' Theorem.'

Yudkowsky's research focuses on Artificial Intelligence theory for self-understanding, self-modification, and recursive self-improvement (seed AI) and also on artificial intelligence architectures and decision theories for stably benevolent motivational structures (Friendly AI and Coherent Extrapolated Volition in particular). He co-founded the nonprofit Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI) in 2000 and continues as a full-time Research Fellow there. Rowling's Harry Potter series to illustrate topics in science.Įliezer Yudkowsky did not attend high school and is an autodidact with no formal education in artificial intelligence. His fanfiction novel, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (2010–2015), uses plot elements from J. He has also written several works of fiction. Yudkowsky is a nonfiction author who writes about philosophy and social science. Eliezer Shlomo Yudkowsky is an American artificial intelligence researcher concerned with singularity and an advocate of friendly artificial intelligence.

Harry potter and the methods of rationality by eliezer yudkowsky