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Future and Past Meetups

We meet 20:30 Israel time/10:30 Pacific time

  • 2021-9-19 Jonathan Blow
  • 2021-9-5 Sam Altman
    • No recording available
  • 2021-7-11 Bram Cohen
  • 2021-6-20 Daniel M. Ingram
  • 2021-5-23 Scott Aaronson
  • 2021-4-25 Andrés Gómez Emilsson
  • 2021-4-11 Jaan Tallinn
  • 2021-3-14 Zvi Mowshowitz: A new game that Zvi is designing & what Zvi has learned from creating his Covid updates.
  • 2021-2-28 Stuart Armstrong: A path to solving AI alignment
  • 2021-2-14 Rohin Shah: The Importance of Threat Models for AI Alignment
  • 2021-1-31 Connor Leahy: Moloch Reigns: To Gather an Army or to Forge a Sword?
  • 2020-12-06 Stuart Russell: Human Compatible
  • 2020-11-22 Michael Vassar: Why Do We Call Ourselves Rationalists?
    • No recording available
  • 2020-11-08 Sam Altman: Q&A on AI, AGI, GPT-N and OpenAI, and more
    • No recording available.
  • 2020-10-25 Jason Crawford: The Non-Linear Model of Innovation
  • 2020-10-11 David Friedman: Legal Systems Very Different from Ours
    • Video
    • David announced his weekly meetups, each Saturday 13.00 Pacific Time, and now also at 10:00.
  • 2020-9-27 Diana Fleischman: Integrating Evolutionary Psychology and Behaviorism
  • 2020-9-13 Connor Leahy on replicating GPT3: We Got Our AGI Firealarm, Now What?
  • 2020-8-30 David Manheim: Cooperation for AI
  • 2020-8-16 James Miller: The Fermi Paradox and X-Risk
  • 2020-8-2 Balaji Srinivasan: Decentralized Media: From centralized media and social media corporations to a million hubs and a billion spokes.
    • Video: Balaji will be creating a more polished video in place of this talk. Please follow him on Twitter or sign up to be notified of its release.
  • 2020-7-19 Joscha Bach: AI as an Epistemological Project
  • 2020-7-5 Anders Sandberg: Information Hazards
  • 2020-6-21 Robin Hanson: Prediction Markets
  • 2020-6-7 Steve Hsu: Cognitive Genomics
    • No recording available
  • 2020-5-24 Bryan Caplan: Our Moral Obligations to the Poor

  • 2020-5-10 Scott Aaronson: The Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
    • No recording available
  • 2020-3-24 Rump Session (Lightning talks from any and all participants)