458

LESSWRONG
LW

457
Community PageLessWrong Event TranscriptsCommunity
Frontpage

31

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

by Bird Concept, Ben Pace
6th Aug 2020
1 min read
5

31

31

Sunday August 9, 1pm (PDT) — talks by elityre, jacobjacob, Ruby
15Matt Goldenberg
6lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)
13Bird Concept
2Ben Pace
2Ruby
New Comment
5 comments, sorted by
top scoring
Click to highlight new comments since: Today at 3:19 PM
[-]Matt Goldenberg5y150

Dayumm that lineup is stacked.

Reply
[-]lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)5y60

Hi all,

I'm going to withdraw my talk for today — after doing some prep yesterday with Jacob and clarifying everyone's skill level and background, I put a few hours in and couldn't get to the point where I thought my talk would be great.

The quality level has been so uniformly high, I'd rather just leave more time for people to discuss and socialize than to lower the bar.

Apologies for any inconvenience, gratitude, and godspeed.

Reply
[-]Bird Concept5y130

Thanks for letting us know lionhearted. You're welcome back another week if you have a talk you feel better about! :)

To all attendees -- the event will go ahead as planned with a replacement speaker (me!). 

Reply
[-]Ben Pace5y20

Aww alas. Another time :)

Reply
[-]Ruby5y20

I've been thinking myself "oh dear, how on Earth will I not drop the standard compared to Eli and Lionhearted??" <sweat bead emoji>

No pressure, but I expect for each of us our talks would be well-received.

Reply
Moderation Log
More from Bird Concept
View more
Curated and popular this week
5Comments
Community PageLessWrong Event TranscriptsCommunity
Frontpage

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.