The first is a debate titled “Lifespans are long enough”, with Aubrey De Grey and Brian Kennedy of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging arguing against Paul Root Wolpe from the Emory Centre for Ethics and another panelist TBA. The debate is taking place in early February.
The second, and of potentially more interest to the LW community, is taking place on March 9th and is titled “Artificial Intelligence: The risks outweigh the rewards”. All 4 speakers for and against the motion are presently unannounced.
I am a long time watcher of Intelligence Squared debates and recommend them highly. I believe others in the LW community have referred to specific debates in the past. The moderator is quite talented and encourages interesting discourse, and is often successful in steering parties away from stringing series of applause lights together.
Both the moderator and founder of the debates have indicated previously that they have been influenced in the questions asked and experts brought on to argue by commentary and suggestions from the public. I have also had a positive response from previous suggestions made to IQ in the past in relation to other debates. I have emailed them already with some suggestions about who I think would provide interesting commentary and perspectives on the debate, and links to some useful ‘background briefing’ documents that they may wish to add to the resources attached to the debate. I suggest that others choosing to do the same might increase the quality of discourse in a debate that is likely to come up highly in people’s Google and YouTube searches into the future.
Generally speaking, the videos from Intelligence Squared are uploaded to their YouTube account fairly soon after the live stream.
Brian Kennedy. Note that he’s on the “Against” side with Aubrey, as makes sense given the Buck Institute’s goal to “extend help towards the problems of the aged.”
Thanks! Y’know, I actually spotted the doubling up of the pronoun, checked it, thought “Huh, random egotism, naming a centre after yourself” and went ahead and clicked ‘Submit’. Cheers, random brainfart! Edited OP for accuracy.
While browsing the Intelligence Squared upcoming debates, I noticed two things that may be of interest to LW readers.
The first is a debate titled “Lifespans are long enough”, with Aubrey De Grey and Brian Kennedy of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging arguing against Paul Root Wolpe from the Emory Centre for Ethics and another panelist TBA. The debate is taking place in early February.
The second, and of potentially more interest to the LW community, is taking place on March 9th and is titled “Artificial Intelligence: The risks outweigh the rewards”. All 4 speakers for and against the motion are presently unannounced.
I am a long time watcher of Intelligence Squared debates and recommend them highly. I believe others in the LW community have referred to specific debates in the past. The moderator is quite talented and encourages interesting discourse, and is often successful in steering parties away from stringing series of applause lights together.
Both the moderator and founder of the debates have indicated previously that they have been influenced in the questions asked and experts brought on to argue by commentary and suggestions from the public. I have also had a positive response from previous suggestions made to IQ in the past in relation to other debates. I have emailed them already with some suggestions about who I think would provide interesting commentary and perspectives on the debate, and links to some useful ‘background briefing’ documents that they may wish to add to the resources attached to the debate. I suggest that others choosing to do the same might increase the quality of discourse in a debate that is likely to come up highly in people’s Google and YouTube searches into the future.
Generally speaking, the videos from Intelligence Squared are uploaded to their YouTube account fairly soon after the live stream.
Brian Kennedy. Note that he’s on the “Against” side with Aubrey, as makes sense given the Buck Institute’s goal to “extend help towards the problems of the aged.”
Thanks! Y’know, I actually spotted the doubling up of the pronoun, checked it, thought “Huh, random egotism, naming a centre after yourself” and went ahead and clicked ‘Submit’. Cheers, random brainfart! Edited OP for accuracy.
I mean, Buck did name the centre after herself / her husband, so it’s not that far off. :P