With all the bad news coming in, is there anything going right? Don’t wait until November; use this chance to share what you’re thankful for right now. This is also your permission to give praise to others for what you appreciate about them. *** The meetup is at Central Market, 4001 N. Lamar, in the […]
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We met a month ago to watch The Matrix, a science fiction action film that depicts a dystopian future in which humanity is unknowingly trapped inside a simulated reality. Now it’s time for us to pick the next movie we will watch. For those who aren’t familiar with the movie discussion meetings, every month we
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The votes are in and Selfish Reasons To Have More Kids by Bryan Caplan will be the next book that we are reading together. Our first meeting reading the book will be the Wednesday after next, at 7:00PM CST on Wednesday, July 13th. Everyone should read the introduction and first chapter of the book before
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In the spirit of previous meetups about rationalist Taboo, we’re going to try an alternate game with the same idea, of trying to communicate something with a limited vocabulary. The game is called Person Do Thing (instructions). Like with Taboo, you’re trying to get someone to say a target word, but instead of having a
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Nominations are in and voting can now begin! You can vote using the following link: https://strawpoll.com/polls/w4nWD1E4dgA The voting will close on Sunday, July 3rd at 8am (2022/07/03 08:00:00 CDT). After that our first meeting to read the first section of the book will be one week from the following Wednesday at 7pm (2022/07/13). Looking forward
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Since it’s been a while, and considering recent market turmoil, it’s time for another meeting up on investing and finance. How do you invest for long- and short-term and why? What services do you use? How do you identify speculative bets that are likely to pay off and how much to invest in them? Have recent events changed
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The Austin Less Wrong Book Club recently finished reading SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard, 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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This Saturday we’ll discuss prediction markets (where you bet on real-world events), with the discussion led by Stephen Grugett of Manifold Markets. We’ll also be joined by his co-founder and brother, James Grugett. Prediction markets have long been advocated by rationalists as a means of getting accurate estimates of the probability of various events by
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We met last Friday to watch The Matrix, a science fiction action film that depicts a dystopian future in which humanity is unknowingly trapped inside a simulated reality. Now it’s time for us to pick the next movie we will watch. For those who aren’t familiar with the movie discussion meetings, every month we agree
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