Sunday August 2, 12pm (PDT) — talks by jimrandomh, johnswenthworth, Daniel Filan, Jacobian

post by jacobjacob, Ben Pace (Benito) · 2020-07-30T23:55:44.712Z · LW · GW · 2 comments

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This Sunday at 12pm (PDT), we're running another session of "lightning talks" by curated LessWrong authors (see here [? · GW] for previous weeks' transcripts).

• Each talk will be 3-5 minutes followed by discussion. Afterwards, we'll have a hangout in breakout rooms. The talks will be short and focus on presenting one core idea well, rather than rushing through a lot of content.
• We want to give top LessWrong writers an interesting space to discuss their ideas, and have more fruitful collaboration between users. Think of it like a cross between an academic colloquium and some friends chatting by a whiteboard.

If you're a curated author and interested in giving a 5-min talk at a future event, which will then be transcribed and edited, sign up here.

Speakers

• jimrandomh
  • Curated posts: A Significant Portion of COVID-19 Transmission Is Presymptomatic [LW · GW]
• johnswentworth 
  • Curated posts: Gears-Level Models are Capital Investments [LW · GW], Everyday Lessons from High-Dimensional Optimization [LW · GW], Interfaces as a Scarce Resource [LW · GW], ...
• Daniel Filan
  • Curated post: Insights from 'The Strategy of Conflict' [LW · GW]
• Jacobian
  • Curated posts: Winning is for Losers [LW · GW], Seeing the Smoke [LW · GW]

Details

When? Sunday August 2, 12pm (PDT)

Where? Zoom. 

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