Sunday August 9, 1pm (PDT) — talks by elityre, jacobjacob, Ruby

This Sunday at 1pm (PDT), we’re running another session of “lightning talks” by curated LessWrong authors (see 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

• elityre

  • Curated posts: Does it become easier, or harder, for the world to coordinate around not building AGI as time goes on?

  • How do you assess the quality /​ reliability of a scientific study?

  • Historical mathematicians exhibit a birth order effect too

• jacobjacob

  • Curated posts: The Copernican Revolution from the Inside

  • Unconscious Economics

• Ruby

  • Curated posts: Conversation Cultures: Combat vs. Nurture

  • Why wasn’t science invented in China?

Details

When? Sunday August 9, 1pm (PDT)

Where? Zoom.