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Some cities have dedicated LW/ACX Discord servers, which is pretty neat. Many of the cities hosting meetups over the next month are too small to have much traffic to such a server, were it set up.
A combined, LW meetup oriented Discord server for all the smaller cities in the world, with channels for each city and a few channels for common small-meetup concerns, seems like a $20 bill on the sidewalk. So I’m checking whether such a thing exists here, before I start it.
Hidden AGI Watch An OG hacker friend skipped the debate over what "real AGI" is, and chose some concrete conditions for AI we should worry about. He vibed up a tracker for observable events correlated with those conditions. This is a good resource if you're Monitoring The Situation.