Cantor's Diagonal Hall·Building C, 1st floor
Person Do Thing: Sign Language Edition
Astra Fellow at CG; writes Naive Bayes, has helped run ACX/LW meetups at UCF, and wants sign language to become a rationalist shibboleth.- Produce AI risk videos at 80k. Let’s make something fun happen here. Long time rationalist, ex–math teacher, enthusiastic yapper.
Forever expanding my nerd/bimbo Pareto frontier. Working on AI consciousness and welfare at Eleos; ex-OpenAI policy researcher
27.8/60 attending
Chance I’d attend
Come learn ASL via Person Do Thing!
Person Do Thing (https://persondothing.com/) is a wonderful game which teaches us that all human concepts can be described using just 33 simple words. It stands to reason, then, that you can 80/20 learning a new language by studying just these words.
American Sign Language is a beautifully fun language. Learning to sign is like spending your whole life illiterate, then finally learning to write—it's a whole new mode of communication. I'll teach you the 33 signs you need, then we can break into groups for some ASL PDT.