Had such a great time meeting y'all and discussing the sequences tonight! Thank you to Ben, Ronny, and Aella for organizing and Lighthaven / Oliver for hosting. Highlight of my week. (and the pizza was delicious too)
- Matt
5Glad you came! I'm excited to keep these going, I really had some excellent conversations, and came up with ways to better practice several virtues (curiosity, argument, noticing confusion).
I'm starting a synced version of this in the Twin Cities. We're going to shamelessly also have fire pits. https://www.meetup.com/saint-paul-acx-meetup-group-unofficial/events/303186245/
1This is right up my alley! I love reading and discussing things with people and am relatively new to the rationality community, this sounds like the perfect starting point. I'm excited to attend and meet y'all, thank you for hosting and organizing this :)
1Also, please note that I will be giving a class at 7:30 after the reading group called "The Bayesics" where I will teach you the basics of intuitive Bayesian epistemology and how to do Bayesian updates irl on the fly as a human. All attending the reading group are welcome to join for that as well.
Alas, belief is easier than disbelief; we believe instinctively, but disbelief requires a conscious effort.
Yes, but this is one thing that I have felt being mutated as I read the sequences and continued to hang out with you lot (roughly 8 years ago, with some off and on)
I've been working on visualization tech and made demo maps to illustrate the flow of each of the mandatory readings. Try them out!
https://seethegalaxy.com/The%20Lens%20That%20Sees%20Its%20Flaws%20Segment%20Map.html https://seethegalaxy.com/Your%20Strength%20as%20a%20Rationalist%20Segment%20Map.html https://seethegalaxy.com/What%20Do%20We%20Mean%20By%20_Rationality_%20Segment%20Map.html https://seethegalaxy.com/Twelve%20Virtues%20of%20Rationality%20Segment%20Map.html https://seethegalaxy.com/Use%20the%20Try%20Harder,%20Luke%20Segment%20Map.html
Note: the maps require either a mouse or a touchpad to work properly. The text shows up as you bring your pointer next to each of the dots.
Oops! Sorry about that. I couldn't find an event that night, but I see now there's a Thursday Dinners group.
The meetup would be very welcome to come join our sequence reading group this week, and we're serving dinner :)
I think this will just be for chatting with each other. But I will encourage people to write up LW comments or shortforms if they have ideas or responses they think are worth sharing!
While I can imagine why others would want to see this sort of thing, it seems to me that "this will go on your permanent record" would be a strong disincentive to engage seriously with the text or mention anything aloud that you wouldn't be comfortable with anyone in the world, ever, knowing about you.
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