This is partially an un-conference style event. The point is not that we the staff have something we want to present to the participants; the point is if we get these people together, we think something worthwhile will happen. (My personal prediction is that at least two participants’ lives will majorly shift because of this program.)
Most of the most valuable events I’ve been to had excellent people and ~no scheduled content. For the most valuable events I’ve been to with content, the content wasn’t the thing that provided the majority of the value for me or most other attendees.
I’ve run ~9 other large workshop-type events and many smaller events, and all of them had a lot of content, but the content mostly functioned to set a context for good conversations. I suspect for the demographic of LessWrong readers, having lots of classes won’t be as useful for context-setting, since there’s already a large body of interesting topics that are common knowledge that people can discuss.
All that said, if I have time, I’ll share a default/baseline schedule later tonight.
Another point related to the above: if I had content I wanted LessWrong readers to know that was easy to transmit in written form, I’d just post it on LessWrong. I’m trying to make the most of the opportunity have interactions that can’t easily happen over the forum (and I think there’s a lot of important interactions of that class!).
Hiya! I’m the co-organizer Jonas mentioned.
This is partially an un-conference style event. The point is not that we the staff have something we want to present to the participants; the point is if we get these people together, we think something worthwhile will happen. (My personal prediction is that at least two participants’ lives will majorly shift because of this program.)
Most of the most valuable events I’ve been to had excellent people and ~no scheduled content. For the most valuable events I’ve been to with content, the content wasn’t the thing that provided the majority of the value for me or most other attendees.
I’ve run ~9 other large workshop-type events and many smaller events, and all of them had a lot of content, but the content mostly functioned to set a context for good conversations. I suspect for the demographic of LessWrong readers, having lots of classes won’t be as useful for context-setting, since there’s already a large body of interesting topics that are common knowledge that people can discuss.
All that said, if I have time, I’ll share a default/baseline schedule later tonight.
Here’s the tentative schedule! (Also added to the post).
Another point related to the above: if I had content I wanted LessWrong readers to know that was easy to transmit in written form, I’d just post it on LessWrong. I’m trying to make the most of the opportunity have interactions that can’t easily happen over the forum (and I think there’s a lot of important interactions of that class!).