Elephant in the Brain: A Book Review

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I think there's often at least for me there tends I tend to experience a certain characteristic sort of fear like wait a second am I going to get crazy when I step far away from what everybody knows in this way. In my experience when you like get into those topics people have almost like a knee jerk reaction to defend it but it's often clear that they have not actually attempted to defend it before because it's like taking so much for granted. Having read the book I started modeling humans as maybe like 20% individual 80% attempted to hive part or something whereby I attempted hive. If any of you want sort of something to mess with your head in a certain way I kind of recommend 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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