How to Be a Better Educator

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I don't know how well the how good the analogy is between society and an individual but I have so much easier of a time modeling individuals. It seems to me that with individuals sometimes there's times when the person is just very open and is reformat like it's just like acknowledging the huge chunks of their tasks were made out of mistakes. Sometimes people are busy like filling their head with chatter about how it's all everybody else's fault or is all even their own fault. In America today almost nobody wants to save things almost everybody wants to talk about how things are bad andHow it's all the other guys fault. Like somehow behaviorally this seems to be easier for people right

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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