Sunday June 21st – talks by Abram Demski, alkjash, orthonormal, eukaryote, Vaniver

This Sunday at 11am (PDT), we’re running a session of four "lightning talks" by curated LessWrong authors.

• 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 this 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. Please RVSP here for the event here, so we know how many people are coming.

Speakers

• **Abram Demski **[Talk transcript]

• Curated posts: An Orthodox Case Against Utility Functions, Toward a New Technical Explanation of Technical Explanation), …

• **alkjash **[Talk transcript]

• Curated posts: Babble, Hammers and Nails, Hammertime Final Exam

• **orthonormal **[Talk transcript]

• Curated posts: The Loudest Alarm Is Probably False

• **eukaryote **[Talk transcript]

• Curated posts: The funnel of human experience, Spaghetti Towers, Naked mole-rats: A case study in biological weirdness

• **Vaniver **[Talk transcript]

• Curated posts: Steelmanning divination, Public Positions and Private Guts

Details

When? Sunday June 21, at 11am, Pacific Daylight Time **Where? **On this zoom link [now removed]. Please RVSP here for the event here, so we know how many people are coming.