As part of our efforts to become more effective at winning, let’s use this Saturday to publicly commit to goals in our lives. Public pre-commitment is a valuable tool in ensuring that you follow through. So come prepared to share what’s going on in your life and what goals you want to accomplish. We’ll check […]
Cafe meetup 9/3: Goal-setting and accountability Read More »
The votes are in and The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin 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, September 7th. Everyone should read the first two chapters of the book before then and we
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We met last Friday at Cherrywood Coffeehouse to discuss Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, a 2004 American romantic science fiction drama film about memory and the nature of romantic relationships. We agreed at our meeting that the next movie we should discuss together should be Everything Everywhere All at Once. The next movie will
Time once again to share your favorite rationality-themed articles or rationality-adjacent media. What are the others missing out on? What would be worth a read or listen? Share your recommendations! *** The meetup is at Central Market, 4001 N. Lamar, in the cafe area. Look for the LW and SSC signs. People start arriving at
Cafe Meetup 8/27: Rationality media and favorite articles Read More »
Nominations are in and voting can now begin! You can vote using the following link: https://strawpoll.com/polls/kjn1jedmegQ The voting will close on Sunday, August 28th at 8am (2022/08/28 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 (2022/09/07). Looking forward
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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 »
