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Meetup for truth seekers, readers & contributors to LessWrong, ACX, and adjacent forums, and all interested in methods of rationality and improved decision-making.
Bring an article or topic to discuss!
Note: you must be a resident of Network School to attend.
Meetup for truth seekers, readers & contributors to LessWrong, ACX, and adjacent forums, and all interested in methods of rationality and improved decision-making.
Bring an article or topic to discuss!
I’m keen to discuss cognitive biases, motivated reasoning, and methods of rationality broadly.
Article to read in advance: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yFJ7vCjefBxnTchmG/outline-of-galef-s-scout-mindset
Appreciate the practical thought experiment to pause and ask whether there would have been a constraint in the ancestral environment. Relatedly, I've found the best way to adjust my own behavior is to focus on adjusting my environment, either by removing or adding constraints corresponding to my desired behavior change (rather than attempting to change myself directly or rely on finite willpower)
Two years ago, the Zuzalu movement was borne with a 2-month experiment gathering hundreds of builders and thinkers spanning heterodox fields to explore building alternative systems and societies.
Now, the movement is moving towards permanence: permanent hubs for "cross-pollination" and co-working, or even co-living, are increasingly the goal for projects within the Zuzalu ecosystem.
Zuitzerland.ch aims to build a permanent Zuzalu node in Switzerland, balancing progress and defense, in order to promote collective interests while defending individual interests:
Inspired by the defensive accelerationism (d/acc) techno-optimistic philosophy, we're building a permanent hub to accelerate defensive technologies: decentralized, democratic, and differential tools to protect and empower individuals and collectives to thrive as the world rapidly changes.
This May,... (read more)
Lunch meetup at Seawiches for LessWrong, ACX, and other rationality-adjacent groups
A six-week experiment guided by cypherpunk and d/acc philosophies.
Here is our mission statement.
Ethereum / web3 / ZK / Privacy / Cyberdefense
As Crypto has gained in popularity and adoption, a proliferation of projects and communities have emerged, creating a web3 ecosystem with many builders and entrepreneurs keen to get involved. Over time, there has been an inevitable drift in the underlying mission to build towards a “free and open society and economy,” and we seek to discuss and refocus community efforts towards “Cypherpunk” software values such as those Vitalik outlines in his recent article, Make Ethereum Cypherpunk Again.
(Meta)Rationality / Cognitive Sovereignty / Collective Intelligence
In a very interconnected, technological world, we’re faced with... (read 326 more words →)
Let's meet once more in-person while we're at Zuzalu! 4pm Monday at the Gelateria.