Taboo is a board game, but also a rationalist exercise that tests your whether your worldmodel is well-connected and deep, allowing you to find many relationships between domains and avoiding compartmentalization. The way the game works, you are required to get others to say a target word, while also avoiding the ones on a “prohibited” list. […]

Time to take a moment and appreciate the parts of life that don’t get enough recognition, that we’ve taken for granted. What are the world’s “solved problems”? *** 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

Free form this time. Share anything of interest to your fellow rationalists. *** 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 begin at 2:30 pm. Please follow in-store signs and guidance.

As a community-building exercise, we’ll do a kind of “speed friending” practice: pair up in timed sessions to get to know the other attendees, aiming to learn something about them you didn’t know before. 🎵 Did we take the time to really discover 🎵 How little we know about each other? — Less Than Jake,

What makes something fun or funny? It’s long been a topic on LessWrong. Share your perspective, and check out the material from the site: LW Humor Tag LW Fun Theory Tag “Frame by frame, to the extreme, One by one, we’re making it fun” Aqua, “Cartoon Heroes” *** The meetup is at Central Market, 4001

We’ve used the art of rationality to improve our lives and gain skills. But are there cases where the toolbox seems ineffective? Athletics, social skills, dancing? Share your experience with cases where you’ve found rationality hard to apply, or where you’ve defied expectations and pulled it off. For discussion: – What articulable, high-level regularities did

Ever since the big freeze, when we wrote a retrospective, we have taken one meetup of the year to discuss disaster preparedness. In light of recent events, I thought this would be a good time to share your disaster plans and make a list of things you need to do to fill remaining gaps. ***

Often times it doesn’t even occur to you that certain things are even an option, even though it’s obvious, at least in hindsight. You can hire a coach on the skill you need! You can buy advertisements! You can ask for help on far more things than you may have thought! We’ll use this meetup

This time we’ll share our favorite places to go and things to do in Austin. *** 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 (such as it is) will begin at 2:30 pm.

It’s time once again for calibration practice! Using a series of numerical estimate questions about the real world, see if you can set a 75% confidence interval on the answers such that the correct answer is your interval 75% of the time, no more, no less. As in previous practices, we’ll draw questions from the