Silas Barta

Sorry had to change last minute. It’s at 4001 North Lamar.

NOTE: We are going to do an unusual location for this meetup — The Brewtorium, at 6015 Dillard Cir A, Austin, TX 78752 (By ACC Highland, near Airport Blvd and 290). Details in footer. It’s been a while since we did a meetup on wellness. Share your well-grounded knowledge of diet, exercise, supplements, and habits!

NOTE: We are going to try a different location for this meetup — The Brewtorium, at 6015 Dillard Cir A, Austin, TX 78752 (By ACC Highland, near Airport Blvd and 290). Details in footer. This time we’ll try a variant of group debugging: help each other set goals, make sure we have the resources to

Time again to share your favorite writings from the LW/SSC/rationality-sphere!  What did you like about it, and what did it mean to you? *** 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 will

This week’s topic will be genetic engineering and inequality.  What impact will genetic engineering have on the future, in particular, the increases differences between humans. Should we be worried?  Are we headed toward Gattaca? LW Tag for genetics *** The meetup is at Central Market, 4001 N. Lamar, in the cafe area. Look for the

With AI all over the news, it’s time to have a discussion of AI risk, Friendly AI, and the Alignment Problem.  Some links to get you up to speed: LW repository on AI risk LW repository on Alignment Eliezer Yudkowksy’s open letter advocating shutdown of post-GPT4 AI *** The meetup is at Central Market, 4001

Lightning talk again! We’ll take turns giving one, aiming for about 10-15 minutes each. What is a lightning talk? It’s where you introduce the group to something you’re familiar with and are comfortable talking about. It doesn’t have to be “rationality related”, just something you have a good enough understanding of that you can take questions about from

Reminder that we’re having our twice-yearly megameetup this Saturday, June 3rd, at The Brewtorium, 12pm-5pm. This is at a different location from, and replaces, our usual meetup. See the announcement and RSVP here.

Time to take a chance to (re)discover the rationalist virtues! Check out Yudkowsky’s original Twelve Virtues of Rationality, and talk about which ones feel meaningful to you. Related, you also might want to check out this recent Substack piece on intellectual humility by Gena Gorlin. *** The meetup is at Central Market, 4001 N. Lamar,

We’ll use this meetup to have fun with ChatGPT. Bring your own experiments with ChatGPT or related projects and have fun testing out new ideas with the group! *** 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,