The Dangers of Challengeing Belief Structures

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I think a bad idea to point out ways that the hive part like doesn't make sense or you know contradictions and things like that. I think there's some risk that as you try to mess with large evolved belief structures that you don't quite understand via individual reasoning that you'll mess up parts of the software that you were using at the same time. But on the other hand if things are dysfunctional if the beehive's clearly not working maybe that's when we need more shaking up of these kind of like you know shared universal beliefsYeah I mean I had a trouble getting into the question because partly because it seems like what's happening right now is that they are getting shook up and more

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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