Social Computers, Intelligent Materials, & Infohazards | Ekkolapto @ UWaterloo
WHAT ⭐️:
• Speakers: Professor William Hahn, Professor Elan Barenholtz, Rana G from Augmentation Lab, Addy Cha from Ekkolapto Research, and more TBA!
TOPICS 🧪:
• William Hahn: Infohazards, Mortal Computation, Thoughtforms, Digital Psychedelics, Hyperorganisms.
• Elan Barenholtz: How Humans and LLMs Are the Same, Linguistic Latent Space, Autogenerative Theory of Mind and Language.
• Addy Cha: Olfactory Languages and Synesthesia, Language Inducing Altered States, Hardware as Software, Social and Cultural Computation, Paradoxical Organisms.
SOCIAL MEDIA 💨:
• Follow Professor William Hahn here: Hahn.AI, X (@will_hahn), Interview on Theories of Everything, Machine Perception Cognitive Robotics Lab, Center for Complex Systems.
• Follow Professor Elan Barenholtz here: Barenholtz.ai, Substack, X (@ebarenholtz), Machine Perception Cognitive Robotics Lab, Interview on Ekkolapto, Center for Complex Systems.
• Hosted by Addy from ekkolapto.org. Previous hackathons, salons, podcasts, and dinners at MIT, UT Austin, FAU, Harvard, Augmentation Lab, DC/Maryland, NYC, Toronto, and UWaterloo.
WHEN 🗓️:
• Wednesday July 2 from 6 PM EDT to 9 PM EDT.
WHO 👀:
• Students, researchers, professors, and founders passionate about fields of philosophy and logic, computer science and AI, mathematics and physics, engineering, cognitive science and consciousness.
• A technical background is preferred but not required. Even if you think you are not a fit for this event, apply anyways!
PREVIOUS SALONS 📸:
• Past Polymath Salons and discussions are uploaded for you to watch on the Ekkolápto channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ekkolapto3