Princeton University- Envision Conference App Due Sunday!

[noazarur]

Envision Conference applications due Sunday!

Interested in technology? Want to interact with a diverse group of talented students, academics and entrepreneurs? Then Envision Conference is for you! Apply today at http://​​envisionfuture.org

The 3rd annual Envision Conference (Nov 30 - Dec 2) explores how to build a brighter future through the prudent advancement of breakthrough technologies. We focus on the implications of Artificial Intelligence, synthetic biology, neural enhancement and nanotechnology. Our current speakers include Peter Singer, founder of the Effective Altruism movement, Natalie Kofler, founder of Editing Nature at Yale, Vincent Conitzer, AI researcher & author, and Wendell Wallach, ethicist and scholar at Yale.

Last year’s participants included funded entrepreneurs, hackathon and science competition winners, published PhD candidates, and student group founders.

• Previous speakers included Simon Levin, Ed Felten, Anders Sandberg, Robin Hanson and Joanna Bryson.

• Participants from 67 different universities.

• Previous and current company partners include Microsoft, SpaceX, SAS, Prudential and Kernel.

All undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to attend! As a participant, you will have the opportunity to:

• interact with speakers during workshops and office hours,

• discuss how to pioneer technologies with accomplished peers and working professionals,

• be a part of a community seeking to steer the world’s trajectory towards positive outcomes through the prudent implementation of emerging technologies.

Envision is committed to need-blind admissions, and provides financial aid for transportation. For more information, please visit our website. The deadline for the regular application is November 4th at 11:59 pm. Undergraduate and graduate students encouraged to apply.

Let’s pioneer a brighter future, today.

Best regards,

@Princeton Envision

[habryka]

I noticed this post was downvoted. I mostly think that’s correct, since it’s clear that it’s just a copy-paste that you probably posted in a bunch of places.

I don’t think the people on this site are opposed to the content of the conference, and I have a bunch of friends who will be going to the conference and I expect they will enjoy it. But I do really have a pretty strong negative reaction that this post feels like it’s trying to sell me something (in the bad way). I recommend that if you want people on LW to have a positive associated with the conference, and generally to see and engage with things like this, I think it’s important that you write something that is either just straightforwardly giving information, or that communicates something interesting and new. Feel free to try to write another post that achieves that, I will upvote it if it seems like a real attempt.