The website for Manifest 2023 (Manifold's planned September conference in Berkeley) lists Scott Alexander, Aella, Destiny, and Robert Miles ("...and more") under "Speakers & Guests of Honor." [UPDATE: It no longer lists Scott.] Will each of them actually show up?
For this market, a virtual appearance counts as long as it's live (not pre-recorded).
I hope to attend the conference to verify, but otherwise I'll get info from people who were there.
In other words, resolves like the embedded market, but without the "as some part of the official program" part. So any kind of appearance during the conference would count.
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Similarly, it should be obvious that Alexander will not manage to make it to the Pacific ocean, despite great effort.
@BTE yes but:
Scott has some commitment to calibration
I think he wants to come but has some medical procedure, so if he has an option to reschedule the procedure then he’d probably do that
@Conflux Meh, the medical procedure thing is weird. did he schedule it after telling the manifold team when he would be available because it seems like this event being scheduled so quick after first being announced was probably due to supposed availability of desired featured guests. Scott Alexander was the top billed featured guest so EXTREMELY unlikely they didn't check his schedule before choosing date. This should make you worried about Scott's health, or suspect of this being a real excuse instead of just a rumor started to help save face for Scott.
@BTE I find it hard to believe that Scott would give a dishonest probability when talking about his chance of attending the "assign accurate probabilities to events" conference.
@Shai And isn't Scott like notoriously mysterious??? Seems to me he enjoys maintaining his pseudo-anonymity.
@Joshua Yep. (Full disclosure: This aspect of the resolution criteria might not have been super well-publicized, since it referenced the embedded market and I just now copied the info over to be more easily readable. However, virtual appearances have always counted for this pair of markets.)