The Importance of Trust in a High Trust Environment

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In a low trust environment, there's this tendency to just shout this kind of partial perspective based on your own values. Even if you and I were talking often in some sort of quiet room where nobody was going to hear us, it doesn't necessarily make us free to just consider changing the lines that all of society is using or something. There's an important difficulty here that applies because these are sort of societal points that we're talking about.

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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