Sunday June 28 – talks by johnswentworth, Daniel kokotajlo, Charlie Steiner, TurnTrout

This Sunday at noon (PDT), we’re running another session of “lightning talks” by curated LessWrong authors (see here for last weeks announcement and some 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.

Speakers

johnswentworth — “Mazes and Duality”
- Curated posts: Gears-Level Models are Capital Investments, Everyday Lessons from High-Dimensional Optimization, Interfaces as a Scarce Resource, …
Daniel Kokotajlo — “Lessons on AI takeover from the conquistadors”
- Curated posts: Cortés, Pizarro, and Afonso as Precedents for Takeover, …
Charlie Steiner
- Curated post: Book Review: Consciousness Explained
TurnTrout — “Power as easily exploitable opportunities”
- Curated posts: Insights from Euclid’s ‘Elements’, Problem relaxation as a tactic, …

Details

When? Sunday June 28, at noon, Pacific Daylight Time

Where? On this zoom link.