Sunday August 2, 12pm (PDT) — talks by jimrandomh, johnswenthworth, Daniel Filan, Jacobian

This Sunday at 12pm (PDT), 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

jimrandomh
- Curated posts: A Significant Portion of COVID-19 Transmission Is Presymptomatic
johnswentworth
- Curated posts: Gears-Level Models are Capital Investments, Everyday Lessons from High-Dimensional Optimization, Interfaces as a Scarce Resource, …
Daniel Filan
- Curated post: Insights from ‘The Strategy of Conflict’
Jacobian
- Curated posts: Winning is for Losers, Seeing the Smoke

Details

When? Sunday August 2, 12pm (PDT)

Where? Zoom.