LessOnline Schedule May 31 - Jun 2 less.online A festival celebrating truth-seeking, optimization, and blogging. It's an opportunity to meet people you've only ever known by their LessWrong username or Substack handle.
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Eigen Hall Building E, 1st floor
max 60
Bayes Ground Building B, 1st floor
max 40
Bayes Attic Building B, top floor
max 35
Gyroscope Building E, 2nd floor
max 30
Glass Hall Building A, 1st floor
max 35
Walled Garden Outdoors
max 30
Venus Building D, 1st floor
max 7
Aumann Hall Building A, 1st floor
max 100
Speed-Friending (1 Minute Each)
No hosts
Rob Miles' New Video Watch Party
Robert Miles
AI and the Creative Arts
Alexander Wales
How to Spot Epistemological Bozos
Yassine Meskhout
Midsummer's Nights Dream Casting Call
Anthony Deluca
Romantic Epistemology
Damon P-Sasi / Daystar Eld
Rationally Writing Live - Utopian Fiction
Damon P-Sasi / Daystar Eld, Alexander Wales
Find your life partner
Christine Peterson
Conflict Improv
Sy Etirabys
Conversational Dojo
Jeffrey Fredrick
Reading Your First Glowfic
Ozy Brennan
Discuss / recommend your favorite glowfic
Max Howald
Improving Epistemology for the Social Sciences
Carl Andreas Dybdahl
Event, Action, Image: Controlling “Psychological Time” for Fun and Profit
Mitchell Howe
Blood on the Clocktower
Brendan Hurst
Blood on the Clocktower
Brendan Hurst
Get the coverage you want when speaking to reporters
William Gunn
Informal Friday night Shabbat service
Ricki Heicklen, Dave Kasten
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Eigen Hall Building E, 1st floor
max 60
Bayes Ground Building B, 1st floor
max 40
Bayes Attic Building B, top floor
max 35
Gyroscope Building E, 2nd floor
max 30
Glass Hall Building A, 1st floor
max 35
Walled Garden Outdoors
max 30
Venus Building D, 1st floor
max 7
Aumann Hall Building A, 1st floor
max 100
you can fight duncan about stuff
Duncan Sabien
Parenting Tales: Abridged Conversations with My Five-Year-Old Son
Alexander Wales
Dinner (Saturday)
No hosts
Drinking and Forecasting: Nothing Ever Happens and other obvious ways to be correct
Joshua Fleming
Fighting Moloch in Politics
Martin Sustrik
Magic the Gathering Color Wheel for Writers
Duncan Sabien
Deceptive Instrumental Alignment & Sleeper Agents
Evan Hubinger
What is Inquisitive Writing?
Agnes Callard
Pro-Natalist Future - Strategies and Visions
Dhruva Chandramohan
YouTube: Educating the masses for fun and profit
Justin Kuiper
Lessons Learned from General Semantics
Davis Kingsley
Superbabies: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Gene Smith
Secular Spirituality and the Rationalist Religion
Aella , Eneasz Brodski, George Worley, Yassine Meskhout
Have religion and spirituality cracked metaethics?
Alex Zhu
Play-First Fusion: An Introduction to Partner Dance
Shri Samson
The Immigrant Journey: personal growth and parenting in the context of an immigrant upbringing
Jasmine Ren
The original snake cult: or, the spread of metacognition
Andrew Cutler, Eneasz Brodski
Emotions drive business decisions (more than may seem): case studies
Asaf Lifshitz
Love is All You Need (for AGI and Alignment)
David Bloomin
The business of newsletters
Patrick McKenzie
Why and How To Goth 101
Eneasz Brodski
Singing circle!
Anna Tchetchetkine
Hamming Circles
Duncan Sabien
Generative AI: promise, perils & product
Dominik Rabiej
Phenomenology Fishbowl
Damon P-Sasi / Daystar Eld
Georgism and Land Use/Housing Policy
Daniel Haller
Exceptionally Gifted Children
John Boyle
Optimal Exercise
Crissman Loomis
Is That So?
Cremieux Recuiel
Negative Visualization (Applied Rationality Class)
Davis Kingsley
Resolve Cycles (Applied Rationality Class)
Davis Kingsley
Combatting polarization in AI discourse
Steve Newman
Personal Investing Talk/Discussion
Yoav Tzfati
Wanted: Desire in Dating
Jacob Falkovich
Emotional Intelligence Board Game (Playtest)
Jonathan Miller, Yingru Qiu
How to flourish in a doomed world? [discussion]
Ruby Bloom
Blood on the Clocktower
Evan Hubinger
The inhumanly alien shape of underlying reality
Tahp
Natural Impact Regularization For AI Safety
Carl Andreas Dybdahl
Why it's irrational to worry about AI doom
Alex Campell
Blood on the Clocktower
Brendan Hurst
An opinionated introduction to writing song lyrics
Buck Shlegeris
Why don't I fall through the floor? An intuitive introduction to quantum chemistry
Buck Shlegeris
One-Hour CFAR Workshop
Duncan Sabien
Game design & interactive narratives
Justin Kuiper
Microschool AMA
Alicorn Blume
Magic the Gathering Cube Draft
Brendan Hurst
(con't) Magic the Gathering Cube Draft
Brendan Hurst
High Attack, Deep Reveal
Mitchell Howe
<Construction Period>
Raymond Arnold
Spaced Repetition/Tools for Thought Chat
Raj Thimmiah
Prove Your First Math Theorem: Egyptian Fractions
Xiaoyu He (Alkjash)
Crux counterfactuals
Nathan Young
Find your life partner
Christine Peterson
Are dyads a fundamental unit of creativity?
Ulkar Aghayeva
The Problem of the Criterion
George Worley
How SF Politics Broke, and How We're Fixing It
Barak Gila
The 2nd Worst Star Wars Film
Damon P-Sasi / Daystar Eld, Duncan Sabien
Emotions Make Sense
Damon P-Sasi / Daystar Eld
Write Your First Fact-Post
Sarah Constantin
Meditation Chat
Raj Thimmiah
Write Your First Glowfic
Alicorn Blume
Case Study: How I became a professional internet weirdo via blogging
Elizabeth Van Nostrand
Write Your First LessWrong Dialogue
Ben Pace
Design Vaniver's Next 6 Months!
Vaniver
Nonprofit accounting & finance
Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg
The Proper Use of Emotions [post reading and discussion session with Ruby]
Ruby Bloom
Microscope (cont'd)
Ozy Brennan
Fooming Shoggoths Dance Concert
Ricki Heicklen
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Eigen Hall Building E, 1st floor
max 60
Bayes Ground Building B, 1st floor
max 40
Bayes Attic Building B, top floor
max 35
Gyroscope Building E, 2nd floor
max 30
Glass Hall Building A, 1st floor
max 35
Walled Garden Outdoors
max 30
Venus Building D, 1st floor
max 7
Aumann Hall Building A, 1st floor
max 100
Body Composition, not Weight: A Beginner's Guide to Resistance Training and the "Lipostat"
Andrew Rettek
Scott Land
Scott Alexander, Scott Sumner, Scott Aaronson
speed-friending v2
Saul Munn
Barbell Coaching (Deadlift)
Tzu Kit Chan
"Tale of a Blogpost" Lightning Talks
Ricki Heicklen
TAI Investing
Jonas Vollmer, Yoav Tzfati
The Standard Analogy
Zack Davis, John Wentworth
David Friedman Q&A
David Friedman
Morning Manifolding: Nothing Ever Happens
Joshua Fleming
The Art of Editing
Clara Collier
Blogging Q&A
Scott Alexander, Ozy Brennan
Competing Dimensions to Optimize for in Literary Translation (Alexis Wu)
Gou (Alexis) Wu
How To Explain Things
Duncan Sabien
Metastrategy Workshop
Raymond Arnold
Taking 30 pills a day to live forever
Paul Han
Exorcising “The Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer”
Andy Matuschak
Puzzle Hunt Recap in Central Campus
Philip Parker, Rosie Campbell
👁️👆👁️ Seeing Deeper Truths Together
Malcolm Ocean
Writing workflow show and tell
Max Howald
Game Theory, Evolutionarily Stable Strategies, and Morality
John Boyle
How To Grow Your (Writing) Audience
Charles Guo
Solving Writer's Block
Damon P-Sasi / Daystar Eld
Q&A with Evan Hubinger
Evan Hubinger
Personal reflections: using rationality to build an inclusive world
Sindy Li
The wrong lessons from thalidomide
Ross Rheingans-Yoo
Gender Differential Psychology Discussion
Carl Andreas Dybdahl
Coliving & IRL community Open Forum
Jonathan Miller, Yingru Qiu
Association for the Advancement of Fairytale Creatures LARP
Ozy Brennan
Association for the Advancement of Fairytale Creatures LARP (cont'd)
Ozy Brennan
Association for the Advancement of Fairytale Creatures LARP (cont'd)
Ozy Brennan
Sex and attraction Q&A with Aella
Aella
Hedging for the Future Coworking
Raj Thimmiah
Blood on the Clocktower
Brendan Hurst
Crux Counterfactuals
Nathan Young
Zvi Plays A Game He Hasn't Played Before
Zvi Mowshowitz
Less Internet Addicted
Sy Etirabys
Snake Cult Q&A
Andrew Cutler
Casual internetfrastructure Q/A
Matthew Kinkele
Record Your First Podfic
Eneasz Brodski, Skyler Crossman
Venture Capital Crash Course
David White
Zvi Does His Job
Zvi Mowshowitz
Tearing, Zooming, and Linking: Willems-style System Theory and Modern Applications
Owen Lynch
Prove Your (Second?) Math Theorem: Deletion Codes
Xiaoyu He (Alkjash)
DC and the security state bureaucracy as she is spoke
Dave Kasten
Scaling gene therapy to treat every human disease
Gene Smith
Singular Learning Theory for Aspiring Bayesians
Jesse Hoogland
Video Game Archaeology: Parsing gibberish for fun and ???
Andrew Vant (Error)
Blood on the Clocktower
Brendan Hurst
Healthy Dating Playbook
Tzu Kit Chan
let's play with websim
Corinne Corinfinite
Catholic Mass @ Newman Hall
Austin Chen
Doppelganger Dash
Brendan Hurst
An atheist's guide to prayer
Nathan Young
Figuring out the future
Richard Ngo
Q&A with Richard Ngo
Richard Ngo
Doppelganger Dash!
Brendan Hurst
How to write a romance novel (and what you can learn from them as a writer)
Maksym Morawski
Para-academic support circle
Andy Matuschak
Developmental Psychology Q&A
George Worley
Power, Society, and Industry: AMA with Ben Landau-Taylor
Ben Landau-Taylor
Learn how to use SuperMemo and Incremental Reading!
Raj Thimmiah
Physics vibe sesh
Adam Scherlis, Shauna Kravec
Deep History of the the Rationality Community
Eli Tyre
Hobbyist on-ramps to custom silicon chips
Alex Gray
Everything you wanted to know about the human microbiome
Will Van Treuren
Epic math puzzle sesh
Elliot Glazer
Open Mic
Ricki Heicklen, Jacob Falkovich
