I also don’t think I could easily have checked whether others at the meetup had the same recollection. I had to leave pretty much when Sam Altman did and I didn’t know anybody attending.
Fact of the matter is that gwern, NNOTM, Amateur and James Miller of the commenters so far seem to have attended the meetup and at least didn’t express any disagreements with my recollections, while Lanrian’s (well-intended and well-taken) corrections are about differences in focus or degree in a small number of statements.
I also don’t think I could easily have checked whether others at the meetup had the same recollection. I had to leave pretty much when Sam Altman did and I didn’t know anybody attending.
Fact of the matter is that gwern, NNOTM, Amateur and James Miller of the commenters so far seem to have attended the meetup and at least didn’t express any disagreements with my recollections, while Lanrian’s (well-intended and well-taken) corrections are about differences in focus or degree in a small number of statements.