Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

Lines of Retreat and Incomplete Maps (with Anna Salamon)

Oct 13, 2020

01:26:32

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Episode notes

Introduction

3min

How to Deal With Anxiety

2min

The Curve of the End of Your Map

2min

The Disappointment of the FDA and the W.H.O.

2min

The Importance of Trust

2min

The Whose Map Is Not the Territory Game

3min

The Map Is Not the Territory

2min

The Importance of Leveraging Your Mind in Service of a Goal

2min

How to Make Sense of What's Going on in the World

2min

10.

How to Organize Your Life on a Small Scale

3min

11.

The Power of Love and Racism

2min

12.

The Importance of Coherence in Human Behavior

2min

13.

The Structure of Twitter Is Eroding Subcultures

2min

14.

The Eroding of Concepts

2min

15.

The Motivation for Yelling We Hope They Die

2min

16.

The Evil Twin and the Evil Twin

3min

17.

The Left's Map of Human Values

3min

18.

The Different Values of Different Groups

2min

19.

The Importance of Partially Understanding

2min

20.

The Importance of Trust in a High Trust Environment

2min

21.

The Importance of Signaling a Good Side and a Bad Side

3min

22.

The Dynamic of Values

2min

23.

The Negative Effects of Believe All Women

3min

24.

The Importance of Defending the Good Side of Reality

3min

25.

The Dangers of Weaponization

2min

26.

Twitter's Trolling Potential

2min

27.

The Importance of Character Limits in Tweets

3min

28.

The Role of Conflict in Organizational Growth

2min

29.

The Importance of Awareness in Institutional Behavior

2min

30.

The Importance of Trust in Institutions

3min

31.

How to Be a Better Educator

3min

32.

The Problem With Narratives

2min

33.

The Elf in the Brain by Robin Hanson

4min

34.

Elephant in the Brain: A Book Review

2min

35.

How to Be 80% B in a Small Society

2min

36.

The Dangers of Challengeing Belief Structures

2min

37.

The Dismantling of Structures

3min

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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