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academia & rationality (pt. 2) - by Lydia Nottingham

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alienation & continuity

pt. 1 L: something i’ve been worried about is whether it’s possible to be a mathematician and also have a life? by which i mean, keep up with current events and come out here to things like this and contribute to such communities. at oxford i felt alienated because i didn’t know any mathematicians who were, uh, ‘publicly situationally aware’ — that is, keeping up with what’s going on in ai and so on — or even shared more general rationality interests, like knowledge management systems and augmentative tech and applied rationality and optimization — X: i think i felt very similar as a…

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