We will meet at 318 Spruce Street, in the covered middle area near Biryaniwalla at 7:20ish and then head over to the host's apartment for 7:30.
As always, vegetarian snacks will be provided.
Activity
This week we'll be reading a selection of posts from the Sequences: Eliezer Yudkowsky's massive collection of blog posts on rationality from early in the movement's history, which generally serves as the foundation of the community.
Some of you may have read the Sequences before, but many of you likely haven't, and for those of us who have, it has in many cases been quite a while. So, we're doing a refresher!
This week, we're reading Against Doublethink, a short sequence about self-deception.
Readings
The sub-sequence can be found here, but if you'd like individual links to the readings, they are:
This meetup is at a different location!
We will meet at 318 Spruce Street, in the covered middle area near Biryaniwalla at 7:20ish and then head over to the host's apartment for 7:30.
As always, vegetarian snacks will be provided.
Activity
This week we'll be reading a selection of posts from the Sequences: Eliezer Yudkowsky's massive collection of blog posts on rationality from early in the movement's history, which generally serves as the foundation of the community.
Some of you may have read the Sequences before, but many of you likely haven't, and for those of us who have, it has in many cases been quite a while. So, we're doing a refresher!
This week, we're reading Against Doublethink, a short sequence about self-deception.
Readings
The sub-sequence can be found here, but if you'd like individual links to the readings, they are:
The readings are quite short, and it should only take about twenty minutes to read through all of them.
Discussion Questions
- Where, in your life, have you deceived yourself? Is that something you think you still do?
- Where have you noticed yourself or others engaging in belief-in-belief?
- Is belief-in-belief ever a good idea, or is it always a bad thing?
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