Silas Barta

What makes something fun or funny? It’s long been a topic on LessWrong. Share your perspective, and check out the material from the site: LW Humor Tag LW Fun Theory Tag “Frame by frame, to the extreme, One by one, we’re making it fun” Aqua, “Cartoon Heroes” *** The meetup is at Central Market, 4001 […]

We’ve used the art of rationality to improve our lives and gain skills. But are there cases where the toolbox seems ineffective? Athletics, social skills, dancing? Share your experience with cases where you’ve found rationality hard to apply, or where you’ve defied expectations and pulled it off. For discussion: – What articulable, high-level regularities did

Ever since the big freeze, when we wrote a retrospective, we have taken one meetup of the year to discuss disaster preparedness. In light of recent events, I thought this would be a good time to share your disaster plans and make a list of things you need to do to fill remaining gaps. ***

Often times it doesn’t even occur to you that certain things are even an option, even though it’s obvious, at least in hindsight. You can hire a coach on the skill you need! You can buy advertisements! You can ask for help on far more things than you may have thought! We’ll use this meetup

This time we’ll share our favorite places to go and things to do in Austin. *** The meetup is at Central Market, 4001 N. Lamar, in the cafe area. Look for the LW and SSC signs. People start arriving at 1:30 pm, and the main activity (such as it is) will begin at 2:30 pm.

It’s time once again for calibration practice! Using a series of numerical estimate questions about the real world, see if you can set a 75% confidence interval on the answers such that the correct answer is your interval 75% of the time, no more, no less. As in previous practices, we’ll draw questions from the

We’re overdue for a day of sharing concepts. Let’s use this meetup to discuss concepts that have helped us to think about important issue. Nash equilibrium: a situation where no one can improve by changing their behavior alone. Superstimulus: something that is finely tuned to appeal to you and is much better than ancestral humans could have

Come celebrate the Summer Solstice and Irrationalist Day, the one day of the year where you get a free pass to break from rationalist norms! Indulge your tarot cards, horoscopes, handwriting analysis, and whatever else! Bring some food/drink to share and, if you wish, something to indulge your irrationalist tendencies. Date: Friday, June 20th Location:

A few of us went to the LW conference, LessOnline (as well as the Summer Camp and Manifest) over the previous week and will have experiences to share. Also, you’re welcome to share any other conferences you like that may be of interest to the group. *** The meetup is at Central Market, 4001 N.

We have the megameetup this Saturday, May 24th, instead of our usual meetup, at Brewtorium, starting at noon. Full details on the LessWrong site.