Recommended Readings & Videos

If this is the first time you walk into this community, you may be overwhelmed by the quantity of ideas and areas that we engage with.

This page is devoted to those who want to get a contextual view about what Rationality is about.

In the following sections you will find links and book recommendations related one way or another to Rationality.

To begin with, we recommend visiting those links marked as ‘Five minutes introductions’. That will help you to wrap your head around some of the concepts central to each section.

If something caughts your interest, spend some time in the other links we provide.

And for those who want to build their expertise, we recommend the ‘In depth’ links. Those are typically books on the subject recommended by experts.

Five minutes introduction: What do we mean by Rationality
In depth: Rationality, from AI to Zombies, by E. Yudkowsky

Five minutes intro: Superintelligence: will humans survive?

In depth: Superintelligence, by Nick Bostrom

Five minutes intro: Introduction to Effective Altruism

In depth: The Effective Altruism Handbook 

Introduction: Existential Risks. Analizing Human Extinction Scenarios and Related Hazards, by N. Bostrom
In depth: Global Catastrophic Risks, by N. Bostrom and M. Cirkovic

Five minutes intro: The cognitive science of Rationality
In depth: Thinking Fast, Thinking Slow, by D. Kahneman