Sunday June 21st – talks by Abram Demski, alkjash, orthonormal, eukaryote, Vaniver

post by Ben Pace (Benito), jacobjacob · 2020-06-18T20:10:38.978Z · LW · GW · 4 comments

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This Sunday at 11am (PDT), we're running a session of four "lightning talks" by curated LessWrong authors.

• 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 this 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.

Please RVSP here for the event here, so we know how many people are coming.

Speakers

• Abram Demski [Talk transcript [LW · GW]]
  • Curated posts: An Orthodox Case Against Utility Functions, [LW · GW]Toward a New Technical Explanation of Technical Explanation) [LW · GW], ...
• alkjash [Talk transcript [LW · GW]]
  • Curated posts: Babble [LW · GW], Hammers and Nails [LW · GW], Hammertime Final Exam [LW · GW]
• orthonormal [Talk transcript [LW · GW]]
  • Curated posts: The Loudest Alarm Is Probably False [LW · GW]
• eukaryote [Talk transcript [LW · GW]]
  • Curated posts: The funnel of human experience [LW · GW], Spaghetti Towers [LW · GW], Naked mole-rats: A case study in biological weirdness [LW · GW]
• Vaniver [Talk transcript [LW · GW]]
  • Curated posts: Steelmanning divination [LW · GW], Public Positions and Private Guts [LW · GW]

Details

When? Sunday June 21, at 11am, Pacific Daylight Time

Where? On this zoom link [now removed].

Please RVSP here for the event here, so we know how many people are coming.

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