The Dynamic of Values

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I agree with that as a dynamic that happens a lot. It seems to me though, the thing I was trying to say about doubling down on the values is a guess about why this is happening. There's certainly secondary social reasons why it happens. But in terms of why it is that if they say these things, their friends won't hate them. And if they try to say something more nuanced, their friends might freak out.

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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