The Importance of Character Limits in Tweets

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Spencer: I have this sense that there's been sort of institutional rot in America for quite a long time. Spencer: It's quite easy for like a powerful institution to start rotting from the inside and hide it. Spencer: Some people argue that if you look at universities and why is the price of education going up so much some analysis suggest that it's actually just bureaucracy increasing more and more as well as services such as fancy services for students. Oof has a tough one.

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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