Events

Hope to see you at the Spring ACX Everywhere event for Austin! It will replace the usual Saturday meetup. LessWrong Event Link. RSVP to help with planning. Date: Saturday, May 24th, 2025 Time: 12pm until at least 5pm. Show up whenever. Location: The Brewtorium, 6015 Dillard Cir A, Austin, TX 78752; We’ll have a LessWrong […]

Do you have anything that might be useful to your fellow rationalists, but is just gathering dust right now? This is your chance to find a loving home for it! We’ll use the meetup to give away, sell, or trade stuff that group members might be interested in. So bring anything you think someone else

Time again for group debugging — share what problems you’re running into in life, and see how others can help you, and how you can help others. *** 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

Do you know of a technique that is bizarrely, disproportionately effective? Share it with your fellow rationalists this Saturday! *** 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.

As announced previously by email, we’ll elect a new committee for deciding member bans at this Saturday’s meetup. To reiterate the rules: 1) You may vote as long as you are willing to serve on the committee (or served on this past one). 2) We will use approval voting, so vote for everyone whom you trust to be on the committee,

It’s the 10-year anniversary of the reading of the final chapter of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, a fan-fic that took the world by storm and put LessWrong on the map. Share with your fellow rationalists how it affected you! Table of Contents *** The meetup is at Central Market, 4001 N. Lamar,

This time we’ll share stories of when we were surprised by something that happened. As you know, a test of your skill as a rationalist is whether you can avoid being surprised by actual events. And with each story, we’ll discuss: 1) What model led to this being a surprise? 2) Was that a good

It hasn’t been long since we did this topic, but I figured we’d do it again what with upcoming festivities and all the visitors that will be descending on the area. Share your recommendations about what you like in the Austin area! *** The meetup is at Central Market, 4001 N. Lamar, in the cafe area. Look

This week’s topic will be “interestingly wrong ideas”, which means “ideas you now regard as wrong, but which you benefited in some way from learning about”. Here is an example from the LessWrong site. To further stimulate your thinking, here are other examples I have from my own life. 1) An article by Douglas Hofstadter

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