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Online Conferences Should be Better than In-Person Conferences, Not Worse

Eric Schwitzgebel · 11 Jun 2026

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  1. Our reading

    By cancelling its remote-conference experiment, the American Philosophical Association deprioritized people for whom travel is hard.

    Their wordsBy canceling the 2+1 experiment, the APA once again deprioritized the interests of these groups.

  2. Our reading

    If enough people try, online conferences will eventually be better overall than in-person conferences.

    Their wordsI anticipate that eventually, if we give it a good enough try, online conferences will be better overall than in-person conferences, even if not better in every respect -- but only if enough of us try, long enough, and in different ways, with the evolving tools that companies will be inspired to build if we create the market for them.

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