Open thread, June. 12 - June. 18, 2017

Thomas

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I think I'm unlikely to attend regularly, but what do you plan to do with the meetup? Lay discussion, technical discussion, attempts to make progress?

I'll link to this from the London rationalish group.

A mixture of things that I think aren't being done enough (if they are let me know).

A meeting point for people interested in the subject in London.
Discussion around some of the social issues (prevention of arms races)
Discussion on the nature of intelligence, and how we should approach safety in light of it
Discussion of interesting papers (including psychology/neuroscience) to feed into the above

Maybe forming a society to do these long term.

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