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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Hello Everyone, Now that we have a fancy new website (Thanks Tim!) I will start announcing events here and prefer to retire the Google calendar we’ve been using. Events will be consolidated here on this calendar. This week’s Tuesday event is at Playland Skate Center on 8822 McCann Dr. 7 PM same as always.
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The votes are in and we will be watching The Matrix (1999) together this month! Based on the high amount of support we got on the Discord server for moving the movie discussions to in-person meetings again, we will be having a watch party/discussion at Frank’s house as Camden Amber Oaks. Please DM Frank on
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Nominations are in and voting for the next movie has begun! Vote here: https://strawpoll.com/polls/05Zd1YloGy6 The voting for the next movie will close at 8AM on Sunday, May 21st, at which point we will all have a few weeks to watch the movie before the discussion meeting is held. Looking forward to watching more cool movies with
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We met about a week ago to watch Khraniteli, a Soviet television play miniseries based on J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring. For those who aren’t familiar with the movie discussion meetings, every month we agree on a movie to watch and then meet to discuss it. All kinds of movies are suggested,
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The votes are in and SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard 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, May 18th. Everyone should read the prologue and first chapter of the book before
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Nominations are in and voting can now begin! You can vote using the following link: https://strawpoll.com/polls/3RnYp4Avxye The voting will close on Sunday, May 8th at 8am (2022/04/08 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 (2022/04/18). Looking forward to
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The Austin Less Wrong Book Club recently finished reading Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, 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 a few chapters)
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Since we haven’t done this in a while, let’s have another meetup where times in our lives where we were surprised — times we thought we had a solid model of the world and it turned out to predict the opposite of what really happened. It’s a great opportunity to review why your world model
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