Valentine (or Michael Smith which is is official name) is a CFAR instructor. I heard him speak at the LessWrong Europe community camp and my impression of his skill comes from that experience and his in person charisma. As far as I know there isn’t a good video of a speech of him online.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyWuNx6y-jk shows him speaking about CFAR in a Q&A style but it’s not really a speech format and I don’t think it gives you a good impression of his actual charisma.
Valentine is interesting because he gets the problem of his charisma resulting in people believing him too much and not engaging in enough critical thinking.
Valentine (or Michael Smith which is is official name) is a CFAR instructor. I heard him speak at the LessWrong Europe community camp and my impression of his skill comes from that experience and his in person charisma. As far as I know there isn’t a good video of a speech of him online.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyWuNx6y-jk shows him speaking about CFAR in a Q&A style but it’s not really a speech format and I don’t think it gives you a good impression of his actual charisma.
Valentine is interesting because he gets the problem of his charisma resulting in people believing him too much and not engaging in enough critical thinking.
Thank you, he speaks about some very interesting things. It’s possible that, as you say, he has great in-person speaking power.