This week, as requested in ACX, we'll be taking a look at election ballots, mostly for local races, and investigating and discussing them. Our general conclusions will be gathered in this doc, and also posted to LessWrong, the email list, and the local Discord, as well as sent to Scott.
The North Oakland meetup is intended as a fun, low-key social space with some structured interaction, where new and non-new community members can mingle and have interesting conversations. Everyone is welcome, and RSVPs are never required.
We meet every Wednesday in Oakland at 6:15, with a rotating variety of topics but don't generally start the meetup topic until 6:45-7:00 to accommodate stragglers, and even later arrivals are also welcome. Often there is a food delivery order that goes out before we start the meetup topic.
We explicitly encourage people to split off from the main conversation or diverge from the topic if that would be more fun for them (moving side conversations into a separate part of the space if appropriate). Meetup topics are here as a tool to facilitate fun interaction, and we certainly don't want them to inhibit it.
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