This is a follow-up to my earlier post about designing a Winter Solstice gathering that combined Rationalist Solstice traditions with local Māori Matariki practices. Here's what I learned from actually running the event. TL;DR: People wanted structured conversation more than curated performance. Starting with collective acknowledgment of loss made subsequent...
Here's my talk for tonight's Solstice Gathering, in Lyttelton, New Zealand. <previously: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4oAk2cu489LcuhjWi/creating-my-own-winter-solstice-celebration-southern> The Darkness Meditation V9 < Song - Sound of Silence > "Hello darkness, my old friend, I've come to talk with you again." Because a vision, of this night, became planted in my brain. Why? Why did...
I've been inspired by user: Raemon and his Winter Solstice celebrations. But I'm also drawing inspiration from the Matariki holiday here in New Zealand. I realized I was longing for meaningful community ritual, and I liked the sound of what he was doing. Growing up in areligious family, I always...
I organized a dinner party for our Winter Solstice back in June. Our first time trying this among my community here. While this doesn't align with Christmas, and our celebration did not try to be a sing-a-long ceremony; It does however fall alongside Matariki, which was a great Schelling point for our own celebration.
Thanks for acknowledging the Southern Hemisphere! I've enjoyed using your thoughts and resources on Solstice to bring this to New Zealand and my community here.
This is a follow-up to my earlier post about designing a Winter Solstice gathering that combined Rationalist Solstice traditions with local Māori Matariki practices. Here's what I learned from actually running the event.
TL;DR: People wanted structured conversation more than curated performance. Starting with collective acknowledgment of loss made subsequent vulnerability feel natural. Social coordination mechanics are harder than they look, but small-scale practice matters for larger coordination challenges.
Growing up in a religious family, I personally wasn't getting the meaningful aspects of seasonal gatherings which I fondly remember from my childhood. Living in New Zealand, I wanted to create something that honored both Rationalist Solstice traditions and local... (read 1101 more words →)
Here's my talk for tonight's Solstice Gathering, in Lyttelton, New Zealand.
<previously: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4oAk2cu489LcuhjWi/creating-my-own-winter-solstice-celebration-southern>
< Song - Sound of Silence >
"Hello darkness, my old friend, I've come to talk with you again."
Because a vision, of this night, became planted in my brain.
Why? Why did I need to make this night happen? For all of you? For Myself? No one told me to do it. My wife, Helen, said it would be too much. Still, I pushed on.
I’d come to see a light within me that had grown dim, a fire that needed tending. In many ways, I just wanted a distraction.
I’ve been struggling, this past year, with my sense... (read 1005 more words →)
I've been inspired by user: Raemon and his Winter Solstice celebrations.
But I'm also drawing inspiration from the Matariki holiday here in New Zealand.
I realized I was longing for meaningful community ritual, and I liked the sound of what he was doing. Growing up in areligious family, I always enjoyed the various traditions around Christmas, and missed them now that I've grown up, left the church and moved overseas. Living in New Zealand, I decided to design my own winter solstice gathering that combines elements from Rationalist Solstice traditions with our local Māori Matariki practices. These two naturally occur at the same time, when it's cold and dark in our winter, and people... (read 517 more words →)
Great Ideas here. The title seems a bit wordy.
how about: ""Random Selection: Democracy's Future"
or ""Democracy by Lottery: The Power of Sortition"
<suggested titles with the help of Claude.ai>
Because most of the software runs in a data center remote from the Autofac, it can be shared between Autofacs. This allows it to not have to think very hard when things are boring, and very hard when something goes wrong.
"most", but not all. How does the Autofac generate the control system for the next Autofac? Doesn't this require a chip fab, or are we just hand waving away the need for more processors and just saying we will import them from outside like we do the raw materials?
Love the optimism, and incorporation of current thoughts.
I fee very in agreement to that last one, about all the small and medium sized problems I see, and could fix, but only by giving up on others.
As always, amazing writing and world building. But this feels like part 1 of....
You've stopped just short of the (possible) treacherous turn, without enlightening us to the resolution.
Here in NZ, we have a minor party that's been trying to win influence and elections, called The Opportunities Party (TOP). TOP has not been very successful, and I believe it's due to not having a core identity. Trying to resonate with people on the basis of Epistemics isn't very effective in practice.