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Thursday, July 2

Inkhaven Writing Group

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7 PM - 9 PM, hosted by Claire Wang

Private group, invite only.

Friday, July 3

6:30 PM - 7:30 PM, hosted by Mox

A weekly dinner for Mox members and plus ones. Come meet your fellow members and chill out :)

7:30 PM - 8:45 PM, hosted by Justin Jung, Henry Weng

we are back! with a twist and new improv games! on FL 4, 7:30 after member's dinner

Saturday, July 4

7:30 PM - 10 PM, hosted by Dean Wyrzykowski

Come sing (or play) your heart out! This is LIVE BAND karaoke. So you can sing to a usual karaoke track — OR be the star while a live band performs your favorite song with you.

1 PM - 5 PM, hosted by Nate Sternberg

ACX First-Saturday meetup group! It's the 4th of July, so the topic will be nationalism! Details in the LW post here: https://www.lesswrong.com/events/W4mgvarKzmLbRhurW/san-francisco-acx-meetup-first-saturday-6cvo

Wednesday, July 8

5 PM - 7 PM, hosted by Ori Nagel

Want to start a podcast or YouTube channel? Already working on one? Whether you're building your first channel, scaling an established show, or exploring new formats, this meetup is for you! Come hang out with fellow YouTubers, podcasters, and others who work and aspire to work in the creator economy, including editors, producers, writers, and designers.

Thursday, July 9

AI & Animals: Documentary Screening & Q&A with Oscar Horta

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7 PM - 9 PM, hosted by Carolina Oliveira

​What does the rise of advanced artificial intelligence mean for the trillions of non-human sentient beings we share the planet with? ​We are hosting a screening of the "AI & Animals" documentary, followed by an open discussion on the intersection of moral philosophy, long-term AI safety, and animal advocacy.

Saturday, July 11

6 PM - 7:30 PM, hosted by Robin Goins

How can we bring the world's largest food companies to the table to discuss welfare protections for the most neglected species? Chrystine Liptrot, founder of the International Council for Animal Welfare, has been winning cage-free policies from multinational firms for more than a decade. But last year, ICAW won the world's first corporate campaign for shrimp welfare. Come learn about the corporate campaigns that go where none have dared to go before.

Sunday, July 12

8 PM - 11 PM, hosted by Hailey Sherman, Constance Li

Premise: 1. AI people and animal welfare people are both cool 2. The two seem to enjoy mixing and it has led to good things happening

Wednesday, July 15

7 PM - 9 PM, hosted by Jennifer Baik

Run time: 1 hr 37 min We’re diving into Wong Kar-wai’s Chungking Express, a 90s cinematic masterpiece of urban yearning and kinetic romance. It’s a gorgeous, fast-paced fever dream about the beautiful, melancholic chaos of finding love in a crowded city.

Friday, July 17

7 PM - 8:30 PM, hosted by Robin Goins

Why do some difficult intellectual problems suddenly melt away when we find an "intuitive" way to think about them (and others don't)? What does it mean for a mental representation to be better or worse?Join us for a talk with QRI Researcher Ethan Kuntz on the phenomenological underpinnings of intuition and novel approaches to building better mental scaffolding.

Thursday, July 23

Safety as the Path of Least Resistance: A New Shape for AI Systems

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7 PM - 8:30 PM, hosted by Quentin Feuillade--Montixi

After three years of red-teaming frontier models for Anthropic, OpenAI, and METR, I came away convinced that making the model itself safe is the wrong layer to bet on. Redlines get bypassed, and training hard for them flattens the model into one rigid persona. The leverage is in the system around the model. I'll walk through Weft, a programming language for orchestrating AI systems, and the bet behind it: that you can break a task into scoped steps run by humans, tools, and narrow models, hold the volition at the system level instead of in one open-ended agent, and end up with something safer that's also cheaper and faster to build. I'll show where this already works, where it breaks, and why I think it makes both regulation and safe deployment actually tractable.

Friday, July 24

7 PM - 8:30 PM, hosted by Robin Goins

Keenan Pepper will be giving a talk on LLM introspection. More on the research here: https://ae.studio/research/selfie

Wednesday, August 5

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM, hosted by Robin Goins

Details coming soon.

Saturday, August 8

1 PM - 3 PM, hosted by Robin Goins, TIAT

​HTML Day is an annual celebration of HTML. It's a day to gather IRL in places around the world to write and learn HTML. Hosted by TIAT in Robin Williams Meadow, in Golden Gate Park! We'll touch grass, write html.

Wednesday, August 12

How to Take Apart A Neural Network (or, Goodfire's VPD Technique)

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7 PM - 8:30 PM, hosted by Robin Goins

Linda Linsefors, co-author of Goodfire's Interpreting Language Model Parameters paper, will be giving a talk on AdVersarial Parameter Decomposition (VPD).

Saturday, August 15

8 PM - 11:59 PM, hosted by Robin Goins, Carolina Oliveira

A party with secrets. (More details soon!)