Sunday September 13, 12:00PM (PT) — talks by John Wentworth, Liron and more

[habryka]

This Sunday at 12pm (PT), we’re running another session of “lightning talks” by curated LessWrong authors (see here 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

• John Wentworth: Talk topic “How to detect unknown unknowns”

  • Previously curated posts:

    • Alignment As A Bottleneck To Usefulness Of GPT-3

    • Everyday Lessons from High-Dimensional Optimization

    • Transportation as a Constraint

• Liron Shapira: Bloated MVPs: Startups that raised money for logically-impossible ideas

  • Previously curated post: How Specificity Works

• Ruby Bloom: Unprecedentedly Accessible Expertise

  • Previously curated post: Conversational Cultures: Combat vs Nurture

Details

When? Sunday September 13, 12:00PM (PT)

Where? https://​​us02web.zoom.us/​​j/​​89420485417

[johnswentworth]

Theme for my talk will be how to detect unknown unknowns.

[MikkW]

Will there be a hangout afterwards? If so, on which platform? I don’t plan on listening to the talks today, since I need to do things (although today’s talks sounds fun), but if there’s a hangout, I’d love to be at that.

[habryka]

Yep, there will be a hangout. By default it will just be on Zoom, but if we are enough people I was planning to also expand to Topia.