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It's influential people talking to each other. If they don't go, they're missing out.

by karmakurtisaani 4mo ago

fergie 4mo ago
Having thought about it, I wonder if Klein, Ferris and maybe some of the others were there to give talks.
- BlueTemplar 4mo ago
  Doesn't seem like it : > I’ve now been once. Everything is off the record, but I’ll just say that it is nothing like the ordinary conference where there are keynote lecturers you barely get to meet (if at all), or where you listen to some pre-packaged lecture. > There are no speeches, presentations, panels, or anything like that. Everything is geared around small-group discussions with 6-10 people in a session or a lunch/dinner. You repeatedly find yourself in deep conversations about life/death/family/career issues with a handful of other people who happen to have great professional accomplishments (although none of that is even mentioned). The experience was both intense (lots of intense conversations) and refreshing (i.e., no hierarchy or status-signaling). https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2022/02/16/hey-i-got-an-exclusive-invitation-to-this-off-the-record-conference-but-i-think-ill-take-1907-jamaican-beef-patties-instead/#comment-2372873 https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2022/02/16/hey-i-got-... EDIT : or maybe it's more complex than that : https://www.wired.com/story/how-peter-thiels-private-dialog-club-secretly-ranks-its-members/ https://www.wired.com/story/how-peter-thiels-private-dialog-...
OutOfHere 4mo ago
What exactly are they missing out on?
- karmakurtisaani 4mo ago
  Connections, insider information, possibility to pitch your projects to very wealthy people etc.
  - OutOfHere 4mo ago
    Collusion.
    - karmakurtisaani 4mo ago
      Can also be.
- TimTheTinker 4mo ago
  Optionality. The power available to any one person to do anything in society is directly proportional to their genuine connections to others, even if brief. Meetups in person with real connections happening (even if brief) create so many new possibilities for those in attendance. The disappearance of in-person meetups (especially among developers) in the US after Covid is a tragedy - so much could be happening that is not. The Manifesto for Agile Software Development only happened because a group of developers met up in person. They disagreed about nearly everything, but what they agreed about changed the industry.
  - OutOfHere 4mo ago
    So he is the new Epstein of the AI age, just without the obvious problem parts. He has his own antichrist-grade problems which are in a way worse.

It's influential people talking to each other. If they don't go, they're missing out.

fergie 4mo ago

Having thought about it, I wonder if Klein, Ferris and maybe some of the others were there to give talks.

BlueTemplar 4mo ago
Doesn't seem like it : > I’ve now been once. Everything is off the record, but I’ll just say that it is nothing like the ordinary conference where there are keynote lecturers you barely get to meet (if at all), or where you listen to some pre-packaged lecture. > There are no speeches, presentations, panels, or anything like that. Everything is geared around small-group discussions with 6-10 people in a session or a lunch/dinner. You repeatedly find yourself in deep conversations about life/death/family/career issues with a handful of other people who happen to have great professional accomplishments (although none of that is even mentioned). The experience was both intense (lots of intense conversations) and refreshing (i.e., no hierarchy or status-signaling). https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2022/02/16/hey-i-got-an-exclusive-invitation-to-this-off-the-record-conference-but-i-think-ill-take-1907-jamaican-beef-patties-instead/#comment-2372873 https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2022/02/16/hey-i-got-... EDIT : or maybe it's more complex than that : https://www.wired.com/story/how-peter-thiels-private-dialog-club-secretly-ranks-its-members/ https://www.wired.com/story/how-peter-thiels-private-dialog-...

OutOfHere 4mo ago

What exactly are they missing out on?

karmakurtisaani 4mo ago
Connections, insider information, possibility to pitch your projects to very wealthy people etc.
- OutOfHere 4mo ago
  Collusion.
  - karmakurtisaani 4mo ago
    Can also be.
TimTheTinker 4mo ago
Optionality. The power available to any one person to do anything in society is directly proportional to their genuine connections to others, even if brief. Meetups in person with real connections happening (even if brief) create so many new possibilities for those in attendance. The disappearance of in-person meetups (especially among developers) in the US after Covid is a tragedy - so much could be happening that is not. The Manifesto for Agile Software Development only happened because a group of developers met up in person. They disagreed about nearly everything, but what they agreed about changed the industry.
- OutOfHere 4mo ago
  So he is the new Epstein of the AI age, just without the obvious problem parts. He has his own antichrist-grade problems which are in a way worse.