The weekend will be filled with talks, workshops, dance parties, and late-night conversations around the fireside.
Would you like to run a session? After you’ve gotten a ticket and we’ve processed it (takes about a day) you can submit a session on the schedule. Here are the sorts of things we’d love people to run:
• Debates: Present arguments for a claim that you’ve thought a lot about, and argue against someone who disagrees with you about it.
• Storytelling: Read us a new story that you’ve written.
• Workshops: Give a workshop on a skill you’ve had practice with — statistics, forecasting, investigative journalism, story-writing, anything you know well and people might be interested in.
• Talk with Q&A: If you have talks you’ve given before or have one you’d like to give to this audience, we’d like to hear it!
• Memo Sessions: This is where someone has written a short essay (2–6 pages) ahead of time, then a small group of people reads it, and then has a Q&A with the author about the ideas in the essay. It works best if the author defends a strong or surprising claim that some people in the room will clearly disagree with.
• Make music: Bring your instrument and have a jam, or lead a singalong, or host a dance session.
• … Something else?
Over the weekend, there will be a continuously updating collaborative schedule for sessions that anyone is invited to add to.
We expect about 700 people to attend over the course of the weekend.
Ben Pace & the Lightcone Infrastructure team.
Access from Friday through Sunday. It includes breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
You’re very welcome to bring your kids, but there isn’t any kids-focused programming this year.
Kids do not need a ticket if they are 13 years old or younger, but please do indicate that you are bringing children when you are registering.
Sure! As much or as little as you want. If you’re coming just for one day, you can buy a day pass for cheaper than the full ticket.
It involves 3 × 4-hour shifts over the course of the weekend. The ticket costs $350, but if that is too much for you then after your 3 shifts you will be able to get a full reimbursement.
You can get a full refund on tickets until the start date of LessOnline. Same applies to Summer Camp. (Note that Manifest may have a totally different refund policy.)
Lighthaven refund policy on rooms is as follows:
• One month before the start of LessOnline and earlier, you can get a full refund on your room.
• Two weeks before the start of LessOnline and earlier, you can get a 50% refund.
• Less than two weeks before the start of LessOnline and later, refunds are not available.
To get a refund on a ticket or room, please contact us at team@lesswrong.com.
