{"id":9552,"date":"2026-02-09T21:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T03:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=9552"},"modified":"2026-02-09T21:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T03:29:11","slug":"nate-soares-visiting-ut-austin-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=9552","title":{"rendered":"Nate Soares visiting UT Austin tomorrow!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is just a quick announcement that I&#8217;ll be hosting <a href=\"https:\/\/mindingourway.com\/about\/\">Nate Soares<\/a>&#8212;who coauthored the self-explanatorily titled <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Anyone-Builds-Everyone-Dies-Superhuman\/dp\/0316595640\">If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies<\/a><\/em> with Eliezer Yudkowsky&#8212;tomorrow (Tuesday) at 5PM at UT Austin, for a brief talk followed by what I&#8217;m sure will be an <em>extremely<\/em> lively Q&amp;A about his book.  Anyone in the Austin area is welcome to join us.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/UT_Austin_Nate2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"791\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/UT_Austin_Nate2-791x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/UT_Austin_Nate2-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/UT_Austin_Nate2-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/UT_Austin_Nate2-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/UT_Austin_Nate2-1187x1536.jpg 1187w, https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/UT_Austin_Nate2-1583x2048.jpg 1583w, https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/UT_Austin_Nate2-scaled.jpg 1978w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is just a quick announcement that I&#8217;ll be hosting Nate Soares&#8212;who coauthored the self-explanatorily titled If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies with Eliezer Yudkowsky&#8212;tomorrow (Tuesday) at 5PM at UT Austin, for a brief talk followed by what I&#8217;m sure will be an extremely lively Q&amp;A about his book. Anyone in the Austin area is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-the-fate-of-humanity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9554,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9552\/revisions\/9554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}