Sunday August 9, 1pm (PDT) — talks by elityre, jacobjacob, Ruby

post by jacobjacob, Ben Pace (Benito) · 2020-08-06T22:50:21.550Z · LW · GW · 5 comments

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This Sunday at 1pm (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

• elityre
  • Curated posts: Does it become easier, or harder, for the world to coordinate around not building AGI as time goes on? [LW · GW]
  • How do you assess the quality / reliability of a scientific study? [LW · GW]
  • Historical mathematicians exhibit a birth order effect too [LW · GW]
• jacobjacob
  • Curated posts: The Copernican Revolution from the Inside [LW · GW]
  • Unconscious Economics [LW · GW]
• Ruby
  • Curated posts: Conversation Cultures: Combat vs. Nurture [LW · GW]
  • Why wasn't science invented in China? [LW · GW]

Details

When? Sunday August 9, 1pm (PDT)

Where? Zoom. 

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