Sunday June 21st – talks by Abram Demski, alkjash, orthonormal, eukaryote, Vaniver

This Sunday at 11am (PDT), we’re running a session of four “lightning talks” by curated LessWrong authors.

• 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 this 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.

Please RVSP here for the event here, so we know how many people are coming.

Speakers

• Abram Demski [Talk transcript]

  • Curated posts: An Orthodox Case Against Utility Functions, Toward a New Technical Explanation of Technical Explanation), …

• alkjash [Talk transcript]

  • Curated posts: Babble, Hammers and Nails, Hammertime Final Exam

• orthonormal [Talk transcript]

  • Curated posts: The Loudest Alarm Is Probably False

• eukaryote [Talk transcript]

  • Curated posts: The funnel of human experience, Spaghetti Towers, Naked mole-rats: A case study in biological weirdness

• Vaniver [Talk transcript]

  • Curated posts: Steelmanning divination, Public Positions and Private Guts

Details

When? Sunday June 21, at 11am, Pacific Daylight Time

Where? On this zoom link [now removed].

Please RVSP here for the event here, so we know how many people are coming.

[kilotaras]

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[TurnTrout]

We’ll share a call link on this post (most likely using Zoom).

Will this be added soon?

[Ben Pace]

In the next 40 mins.

[jacobjacob]

Added! :)