Jerusalem meetup Nov. 20

Actually, I was wondering that myself! I differentiate myself by the fact that I'm among the very first Vladimirs around here. (I've been an OB reader for three years now, I think.)

[-][anonymous]16y00

Heh, actually it has no relation to hyperlinks or Zelda (I think). The website just puts it on a map for convenient finding.

[-]cousin_it16y40

I'm so jealous of all those meetups happening. Never met anyone from LW in person.

[-]prase16y20

If there was a Moscow meetup, I would consider participation.

[-]cousin_it16y40

You're Russian??? Your name doesn't happen to be Vladimir, does it?

[-]prase16y00

I am not, but at the moment I live in Russia. Your name happens to be Vladimir, by the way?

[-]cousin_it16y00

Yeah.

[-]jaimeastorga200016y20

Have you considered a more proactive solution to your problem (i.e. introducing people from your geographical area to LW)?

[-]Vaniver16y10

Or, still proactive but less dependent on a worthwhile social network, trying to start a meetup in your geographical area?

[-]cousin_it16y10

For some reason I'm awfully bad at bringing people together. There's something about the task that I can't seem to grasp, no matter how much I try and fail. Is there anyone on LW who started out with no talent for this, but managed to improve through hard work?

[-]AnnaSalamon16y110

To call a LW meet-up, all you need to do is:

Announce it on here, with a time (a week or so in advance) and a location (somewhere where a group can gather and still hear one another; e.g. a quieter-end pizza place),
Show up yourself, with a sign that says "less wrong meet-up".

Any chance you might try? There seem to be a number of cool LW-ers from Moscow.

[-]Vladimir_Gritsenko16y30

I'd add step 0: have Singulairty Institute members come for a long visit near you, thus serving as the impetus of the meetup :-)

[-]bisserlis16y40

Yes. I tried and failed to run a student social/special interest group for a while, interspersed with low- to medium-quality leadership conferences on occasion. After a year (of the school variety, so nine months) of running weekly meetings and hosting lecture events I got to be pretty decent.

[-]Vladimir_Gritsenko16y10

You can move to Israel :-)

[-]cousin_it16y20

Oh that's another shortcoming of mine. I'm very, very inert. My life in Moscow right now is so extraordinarily easy and comfortable that you'd have to pull me to make me emigrate. Willing to make visits to anywhere in the world, though, as long as people invite me first :-)

[-]DanB16y00

Eh, it's not a shortcoming. Gibbs spent nearly his whole life at Yale, Kant never traveled more than 100 miles from Konigsberg.

[-][anonymous]16y00

Unfortunately I have no Jewish girlfriends at the moment. Probably should've moved when I had one :-)

[-]JoshuaFox16y20

Thank you for organizing the meet-up, Vladimir.

There were eight people there last night, and it was a great opportunity to see people in meatspace, after years online.

[-]Meni_Rosenfeld16y00

I'm interested in being there, but that's a pretty long drive for me. Is there any chance to make it in Tel-Aviv instead?

[-]DanArmak16y20

If it helps, I'm coming to the meetup from T-A, and I can give you a ride to Jerusalem and back.

[-]AnnaSalamon16y10

Not this time, although I could be talked into doing a Tel Aviv meet-up in a few weeks. This is meet-up is actually flowing out of a Tel Aviv Transhumanist meet-up a week and a half ago (do you know that group? do you want their contact info?) which, in retrospect, I really should have announced on here.

[-]Meni_Rosenfeld16y00

do you know that group? do you want their contact info?

No, and no need - I trust I'll find them should the need arise.

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