Sunday July 12 — talks by Scott Garrabrant, Alexflint, alexei, Stuart_Armstrong

This Sunday at 12:00 (PDT), we’re running another session of “lightning talks” by curated LessWrong authors (see here and 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

Scott Garrabrant
- Curated posts: Yes Requires the Possibility of No, Thoughts on Human Models, Embedded Agents, …
alexei — “The Efficient Market Hypothesis”
- Curated post: Arbital postmortem
Alexflint
- Curated posts: The ground of optimization, Reply to Paul Christiano’s “Inaccessible Information”
Stuart_Armstrong
- Curated posts: Assessing Kurzweil predictions about 2019: the results, mAIry’s room: AI reasoning to solve philosophical problems, Why we need a *theory* of human values

Details

When? Sunday July 12, 12:00 (Pacific Daylight Time)

Where? https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89082417670