The Different Values of Different Groups

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I think that to some people certain values are more important than to other people at least. And I think that there's group differences in those. So we get into situations where we find these cases that seem like they fall sort of at the, these boundary edge edge of our value system. We're not quite sure how to make sense of their difficult cases because they're not clear cut ones. Maybe multiple values are like at stake simultaneously and being trade off against each other.

What does it mean to leave lines of retreat in social contexts? How can we make sense of the current state of the world? What happens when we run out of map? How does the book Elephant in the Brain apply to the above questions?

Anna Salamon does work with the Center for Applied Rationality and the Machine Intelligence Research Institute. She studied math and great books in undergrad, and philosophy of science for a small bit of grad school before leaving to work on AI-related existential risk. Fav. books include: R:AZ; HPMOR; “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” and “The Closing of the American Mind” (as an intro to the practice of reading books from other places and times, not to evaluate the books, but to gain alternate hypotheses about ourselves by asking how the authors might perceive us). She blogs a bit at lesswrong.com.

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