The Importance of Awareness in Institutional Behavior

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I agree very much with the core thing one place where I want to nitpick what you said earlier is I think you said and therefore the institutions look like they got much worse all of a sudden that probably didn't really something like that. It seems to me that once people become aware that a thing is bad or that there isn't really a norm there or something whether the awareness is accurate or inaccurate this itself often serves to break the institution further. Yeah okay so I guess I agree with that but it seems to me it's a whole thing. So like she's not doing that kind of thing as in like making new discoveries or creating more abundance things like that. But your organization

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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