How to Be 80% B in a Small Society

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humans are 90% 10% B and it seems like you're more like 80% B 20% 10% something like this. Jonathan Hyatt has this phrase I think it's like humans are 90%. A lot of people don't have very much skill at forming individual models sufficient for governing month's life so if the hive part stuff stops yeah I really don't know I mean I'm very interested to see it.

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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