This Sunday at 12pm (PT), 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

• John Wentworth: Talk topic "How to detect unknown unknowns"
  • Previously curated posts:
    • Alignment As A Bottleneck To Usefulness Of GPT-3
    • Everyday Lessons from High-Dimensional Optimization
    • Transportation as a Constraint
• Liron Shapira: Bloated MVPs: Startups that raised money for logically-impossible ideas
  • Previously curated post: How Specificity Works
• Ruby Bloom: Unprecedentedly Accessible Expertise
  • Previously curated post: Conversational Cultures: Combat vs Nurture

Details

When? Sunday September 13, 12:00PM (PT)

Where? https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89420485417