131. An Alien God
133. Evolutions Are Stupid (But Work Anyway)
134. No Evolutions for Corporations or Nanodevices
136. The Tragedy of Group Selectionism
137. Fake Optimization Criteria
138. Adaptation-Executers, not Fitness-Maximizers
140. An Especially Elegant Evolutionary Psychology Experiment
141. Superstimuli and the Collapse of Western Civilization
142. Thou Art Godshatter
145. Optimization and the Intelligence Explosion
147. Artificial Addition
148. Terminal Values and Instrumental Values
150. The Hidden Complexity of Wishes
152. Lost Purposes
The Machine in the Ghost is the third book contained in the ebook Rationality: From AI to Zombies, by Eliezer Yudkowsky. It covers topics related to cognition, concepts, and the general notion of goal-oriented behavior.
The Machine in the Ghost contains three sequences of thematically connected essays, plus the stand-alone essay An Intuitive Explanation of Bayes's Theorem. These are all collected in the Rationality: From AI to Zombies ebook, but the essay names below also link to the original blog posts.
The previous book in the series is How to Actually Change Your Mind, and the next book is Mere Reality.
153. The Parable of the Dagger
155. Words as Hidden Inferences
156. Extensions and Intensions
157. Similarity Clusters
158. Typicality and Asymmetrical Similarity
159. The Cluster Structure of Thingspace
160. Disguised Queries
161. Neural Categories
162. How An Algorithm Feels From Inside
164. Feel the Meaning
165. The Argument From Common Usage
166. Empty Labels
167. Taboo Your Words
168. Replace the Symbol with the Substance
170. Categorizing Has Consequences
173. Where to Draw the Boundary?
175. Mutual Information, and Density in Thingspace
176. Superexponential Conceptspace, and Simple Words
177. Conditional Independence, and Naive Bayes
178. Words as Mental Paintbrush Handles
179. Variable Question Fallacies
180. 37 Ways That Suboptimal Use Of Categories Can Have Negative Side Effects On Your Cognition
"L. The Simple Math of Evolution" seems like it shouldn't be bold, but I don't know how to fix this.