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Discussion article for the meetup : Urbana-Champaign, Consciousness WHEN: 27 April 2014 12:00:00PM (-0500) WHERE: 300 S Goodwin Ave Apt 102, Urbana Yes, really. WHAT: What is consciousness? What things are conscious? Recommended reading: http://lesswrong.com/lw/p9/the_generalized_antizombie_principle/ http://www.utilitarian-essays.com/consciousness.html Feel free to post and add anything to the recommended reading, as long as...

Discussion article for the meetup : Urbana-Champaign Scantily Attended Meetups Rerun WHEN: 13 April 2014 12:00:00PM (-0500) WHERE: 300 S Goodwin Ave Apt 102, Urbana. Two meetups I can remember didn't have enough people at them to make them what they could have been. By the power of disjunction, I...

Discussion article for the meetup : Urbana-Campaign: Discussion (Folk Wisdom) WHEN: 30 March 2014 02:00:00PM (-0500) WHERE: 300 S Goodwin Ave Apt 102, Urbana. WHAT: Starting topic: folk wisdom. How to extract actual wisdom from it? Related reading: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/03/24/should-you-reverse-any-advice-you-hear/ http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/06/09/all-debates-are-bravery-debates/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/1ka/any_sufficiently_advanced_wisdom_is/ http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/199711/folk-wisdom-was-grandma-right WHERE: 300 S Goodwin Ave Apt 102, Urbana....

Discussion article for the meetup : Urbana-Champaign: Discussion WHEN: 16 March 2014 11:00:00AM (-0800) WHERE: 300 S. Goodwin Ave Apt 102 Urbana IL WHAT: Starting topic: contrarianism. When is it justified? Related reading: This and everything linked at the beginning. WHERE: 300 S Goodwin Ave Apt 102, Urbana. The door...

Discussion article for the meetup : Urbana-Champaign: Games WHEN: 02 March 2014 12:00:00PM (-0800) WHERE: 40.110430, -88.223784 Available games will include Wits and Wagers, Zendo, Cards Against Humanity, Pandemic, probably Flux, and the closed beta of Dystheism, a cooperative multiplayer puzzle game. Meetup will be held at my apartment: 300...

Discussion article for the meetup : Urbana-Champaign: Politics and the English Language WHEN: 16 February 2014 02:00:00PM (-0600) WHERE: 40.109545,-88.2273 Read this: https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm And then show up and discuss it. Discussion article for the meetup : Urbana-Champaign: Politics and the English Language

Discussion article for the meetup : Urbana-Champaign: Fallacy Categorization WHEN: 02 February 2014 02:00:00PM (-0600) WHERE: 40.109545,-88.227318 For types of arguments commonly called fallacies, Why can using this kind of argument mislead you? When can a similar argument be a good one? Is this argument flat-out nonsense, or is it...