Austin notes from September 27, 2026: this became The Curve!

• 2-day conference for ~200 folks who think about AGI
• Inviting AI labs, Silicon Valley tech, EA folks, legislators, writers
• But: irreverent and fun, instead of professional

Events

• Pause vs accelerate: giant tug of war
• LLM Karaoke
• Blood on the Clocktower, ofc

Invitees?

• Leaders in AI, eg Sam Altman, Dario/Daniela Amodei, Demis Hassabis, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk
• Tech leaders, eg Paul Graham, Garry Tan, Marc Andressen, Nat Friedman
• Communicators, eg Dwarkesh Patel, Lex Fridman, Kelsey Piper, Scott Alexander
• Legislators, eg
• EA folks: eg Holden Karnofsky, Paul Christiano, Eliezer Yudkowsky*, Ajaya Cotra
• E/acc: eg Beff Jezos, ???
• Manifund regrantors: Leopold Aschenbrenner, Evan Hubinger, Adam Gleave, Ryan Kidd, Neel Nanda, Dan Hendrycks
• Recs:
  • Alec Radford
  • Daniel M Ziegler
  • Emmett Shear
  • Ryan Kidd

Sponsors?