Time once again to work on our worldmodel-connectedness skills with Taboo! Taboo is a board game, but also a rationalist exercise that tests your worldmodel’s ability to maintain a deep understanding across domains. You are required to get others to say a target word, while also restricted from using certain related words from a “prohibited” […]
Cafe Meetup 8/20: Taboo practice! Read More »
The Austin Less Wrong Book Club recently finished reading Selfish Reasons To Have More Kids by Bryan Caplan, so it’s now time to nominate and vote on the next book we will be reading. For those who aren’t familiar with the book club, every week we choose a section of a book to read (usually
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Building off a previous meetup discussing Prediction Markets, this Saturday will be dedicated to generating local questions about the future of our group and our city. For example: Will the group host an event with more than 100 people attending within the next year? Will the group Saturday meetup location still be Central Market Cafe
Cafe Meetup 8/12: Prediction Markets and Prophesies Read More »
Based on feedback from the recent poll, people found the current voting procedures to be too cumbersome. We’re going to try to return to the format we used before the pandemic, where people watch the movie beforehand and meet up at a public place to discuss the movie. The next movie will be nominated and
We’ve put it off for a while, but it’s finally time: We’ll practice the Double Crux technique of disagreement resolution. In this technique, you try to find some fact that, if you could be convinced of it, you’d change your mind (or at least would be a significant blow to you view). To make it
Cafe Meetup 8/6: Double Crux Read More »
We’ve had low participation in movie discussion nights the past few months, if you have any thoughts on whether movie discussion night should continue or have any ideas for how to improve movie discussion night please fill out this quick survey: https://forms.gle/HgsTfsVTJRkS6BWV7 Thanks!
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As you might know, I went to retreat this weekend for organizers of LW/ACX/rationality meetups and got to compare notes with our counterparts in cities all over the world. I’ll present what I learned, and we can share our thoughts on what the group is doing right, and what can still improve. *** The meetup
Cafe Meetup 7/30: Retreat Follow-up Read More »
We will be watching Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) together this month! No one volunteered to host a watch party so we will be watching the film separately and getting together to discuss it on Discord this Friday at 7pm. What: Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) When: Friday, July 29th, 2022, at 7:00 pm Where:
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What would a rationalist meetup be without some discussion of the Trolley Problem (where you decide whether to divert a trolley to hit a bystander in order to protect more people on the track)? We’ll use this as a chance to explore its many variants, inspired by the Absurd Trolley Problems site. Note: I won’t
Cafe Meetup 7/23: Trolley problems! Read More »
The votes are in and we will be watching Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) together this month! Please submit a response to this form if you are interested in hosting this month’s movie night. If no one is willing to host we will meet virtually. The form submission window will close on Sunday July 24th
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