Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86500459688

This summer, Google’s LaMDA — short for “Language Model for Dialogue Applications”—filled the news after Google engineer Blake Lemoine went public with his claim that the technology is sentient, with Lemoine later supporting LaMDA is hiring an attorney. You can read more of the headlines here: https://news.google.com/search?q=lamda&hl=en-US&gl=US...

Professor Jeff Sebo, who will be directing NYU’s new “Mind, Ethics, and Policy Program,” will lead an hour-long virtual discussion spurred by the LaMDA story on digital sentience and the questions they spur on the moral, political, and legal status of nonhuman minds. If you’re interested in reading more before the virtual discussion, here is a good place to start: https://experiencemachines.substack.com/.../lots-of-links...

EA NYC:

Please find all EA NYC event information—including our Code of Conduct, food policy, Covid policy, and information on past and future events—here on our website: https://www.effectivealtruism.nyc/events

For those new to effective altruism, here are a couple of good introductions. In short, EA is about using evidence to carefully analyze how, given limited resources, we can help others the *most*.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48VAQtGmfWY...