I already posted this here in 2009 and some commenters asked for a video, so I immediately recorded one six years later. This time the audience isn't teens from my former youth group, it's employees who work at my software company where we have a seminar series on Thursday afternoons.
And it also reminds me of this, reminding that "you" are not even your whole brain, just the tiny sliver of it that runs the introspection/self-awareness logic.
Here's a 32-minute presentation I made to provide an introduction to some of the core LessWrong concepts for a general audience:
You Are A Brain [YouTube]
You Are a Brain [Google Slides] - public domain
I already posted this here in 2009 and some commenters asked for a video, so I immediately recorded one six years later. This time the audience isn't teens from my former youth group, it's employees who work at my software company where we have a seminar series on Thursday afternoons.