This Week at Mox | 5/31–6/6
Festival season is here, and with it, the socializing avalanche™
⬧︎ announcements ⬧︎
Mox is excited to host coworking days during Festival Season, starting the Wednesday before LessOnline and running through the Tuesday after Manifest! Come hang out with festival attendees from around the world, meet people, get some work done. Open coworking days: Thursday June 4, Friday June 5, and Monday June 16 — and open 24/7 for ticketholders to either or both conferences. Then join us for bar crawls, talks, hangover brunch, and sauna time at Archimedes Banya!
♢ Join us at moxsf.com/festivaldays ♢
oh, and also: MATS recently launched a Founding & Field-Building track for AI Safety and Biosecurity. We're very excited for this, and recommend applying! The deadline is June 7. Learn more about it here.
ok, now we're ready:
⬧︎ this week at Mox ⬧︎
Also see the Mox calendar for more detail.
⬧︎ Sunday 5/31:
🎪 12:00pm–6:00pm | Minifest | Public
A half-day cozy unconference consisting of attendee-led sessions, games, talks, activities, workshops, puzzles, art, and whatever else you bring!
⬧︎ Monday 6/1:
📚 7:00pm | 90/30 ML Reading Club | Public
Reading and discussing classic machine learning papers as well as contemporary research!
🧮 8:00pm | SF Formal Math with Lean | Public
Weekly gathering for anyone interested in formalized mathematics, theorem proving, or proof assistants — focused on Lean. No lectures, just collaborative project work. Beginners welcome!
⬧︎ Tuesday 6/2:
🔬 6:00pm | Strange Evals — ProgramBench | Members
A paper reading club but we deep dive into benchmarks. This session: ProgramBench, on which the best SOTA model scores just 1/200. Are we looking at a new paradigm, or a poorly designed benchmark? Has OpenAI regained the Mandate of Heaven? Pre-reading: skim the ProgramBench paper for 15 minutes.
⬧︎ Wednesday 6/3:
🍺 6:30pm | Mox Early Birds Bar Crawl | Public
Kick off festival season with a casual early-bird drink. 6pm @ The Crafty Fox | 7:30pm @ Zeitgeist | 9pm @ Martuni’s.
⬧︎ Thursday 6/4:
💻 10:00am–7:00pm | Pre-LessOnline Cowork & Hang | Public
Come cowork with other festivalgoers at Mox! Open to all for free. Sign up at moxsf.com/festivaldays to get access.
🐙 7:15pm | Mox Movie Night #6.1: My Octopus Teacher | Public
A 2020 Oscar-winning Netflix documentary following a burnt-out filmmaker who forms a profound bond with a wild octopus in a South African kelp forest. Runtime: 1h 30min. 4th floor. For animal lovers, nature enthusiasts, and burnt-out bees 🐝
⬧︎ Friday 6/5:
💻 10:00am–4:00pm | Pre-LessOnline Cowork & Hang | Public
Come cowork with other festivalgoers at Mox! Open to all for free. Sign up at moxsf.com/festivaldays to get access.
🐾 10:00am–4:00pm | Animal Welfare Coworking Day! | Public
Come cowork with other folks interested in promoting animal welfare! Mox and Sentient Futures are building a dedicated animal welfare hub in SF. Optional pomodoro sessions throughout the day, led by Hailey Sherman. 4th floor.
⬧︎ Saturday 6/6:
🗣️ 1:00pm–5:00pm | First Saturday ACX Meetup | Private
Discussing one recent and one classic ACX (technically SSC) post. See the LessWrong post for details!
See you around… right?