Hello! Here I am, letting you know. I would not have known about this meetup unless it had conveniently popped up in my email inbox like it just did. Thanks for doing that!
Yeah same! Thank you for posting here. I've been wanting a local meetup for years and for some reason my searches never found you guys.
We're back to being in person! Once more at Newspeak House.
As an advance notice, on March 13th I intend to have a meta-meetup, where we can discuss what we like/don't like/want to change about London Rationalish. For this month though, we'll be doing our reading list, except that one of them is a podcast.
- Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg: Preference Falsification and Postmodernism with Michael Vassar (93 minutes, https://clearerthinkingpodcast.com/episode/028)
- Overconfidence is Deceit (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WsvpkCekuxYSkwsuG/overconfidence-is-deceit)
We'll start to discuss these around 3, with people arriving from 2. If you have a reading you'd like to suggest for future meetups, please do so at https://redd.it/pb6ifb. If you don't have a reddit account or whatever, you can PM me or something and I'll add it to the list.
Some other things to say:
I encourage you to take a Covid test before coming, and consider your personal thresholds for acceptable risk.
(This spot requested previously, but the wording is my own and I wrote truthfully.) Newspeak House describes its goal as to "study, nurture and inspire emerging communities of practice across UK public sector and civil society". I mostly think of it as "the cool house that has a bunch of interesting stuff going on all the time". I definitely feel a sense of kinship and fellow-travelerness with it; I think it's a force for good in the world and I'm glad it exists and can enable things, many of which are even better than generously hosting us (now and in the past). If you think as I do, please consider becoming a member, which you can do at https://newspeak.house/.
(I don't usually crosspost these to LW, for no particular reason other than mild inconvenience. I'm pretty sensitive to that inconvenience, but at minimum it seems worth doing at least occasionally. Please let me know if you found it being crossposted here to be helpful.)
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