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Meetup : Israel Less Wrong Meetup: Communities and the rationalist community

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Discussion article for the meetup : Israel Less Wrong Meetup: Communities and the rationalist community

WHEN: 21 August 2014 07:00:00PM (+0300)

WHERE: 98 Yigal Alon St., 29th floor, Tel Aviv

We're going to have a meetup on Thursday, August 21st at Google Israel's offices, Electra Tower, 98 Yigal Alon st., Tel Aviv.

This time will be a discussion of Communities, Community Building and the Rationalist

Community. We will have an overview of interesting things other meetups do around the world and we will discuss outreach, attracting more members and growing our own community.

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Discussion article for the meetup : Israel Less Wrong Meetup - Social, Board Games and FAI

WHEN: 07 August 2014 07:00:00PM (+0300)

WHERE: Google Tel Aviv

We're going to have a meetup on Thursday, August 7th at Google Israel's offices, Electra Tower, 98 Yigal Alon st., Tel Aviv.

This time we're going to have a social meetup! We'll be socializing and playing games. Also, we'll be continuing discussion we started in the mailing list about friendly AI!

We'll start the meetup at 19:00, and we'll go on as much as we like to.

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Discussion article for the meetup : Less Wrong Israel Meetup (Tel Aviv): Futurism and The Future

WHEN: 24 July 2014 07:00:00PM (+0300)

WHERE: 98 Yigal Alon St., 33rd floor, Tel Aviv

We're going to have a meetup on Thursday, July 24th at Google Israel's offices, Electra Tower, 98 Yigal Alon st., Tel Aviv.

This time will be a discussion of Futurism - but not necessarily relating to AI. Body and mind modifications, utopias, and everything in between. Vadim Kosoy will open up the session by telling us about possible utopias, safeguards for

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Discussion article for the meetup : Israel Less Wrong Meetup - Social, Board Games and FAI

WHEN: 12 June 2014 07:00:00PM (+0300)

WHERE: Google Tel Aviv

We're going to have a meetup on Thursday, June 12th at Google Israel's offices, Electra Tower, 98 Yigal Alon st., Tel Aviv.

This time we're going to have a social meetup! We'll be socializing and playing games. Also, we'll be continuing discussion we started in the mailing list about friendly AI!

We'll start the meetup at 19:00, and we'll go on as much as we like to. Feel

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Meetup : Israel Less Wrong Meetup - Existential Risk and AI discussion

Hey guys, notice this meetup was moved to Wednesday, April 30th because there is a Rump Session in Jerusalem on May 1st.

See you soon!

Meetup : Israel Less Wrong Meetup - Existential Risk and AI discussion

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Discussion article for the meetup : Israel Less Wrong Meetup - Existential Risk and AI discussion

WHEN: 30 April 2014 07:00:00PM (+0300)

WHERE: Google Tel Aviv

* NOTE - Meetup date was moved to Wednesday, April 30th *

We're going to have a meetup on Wednesday, April 30th at Google Israel's offices, Electra Tower, 98 Yigal Alon st., Tel Aviv.

This time will be a discussion of General Artificial Intelligence and Existential Risk - subjects that are both core to LessWrong and some would say important for the sake of the future of

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Meetup : Israel Less Wrong Meetup - Social and Board Games

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Discussion article for the meetup : Israel Less Wrong Meetup - Social and Board Games

WHEN: 03 April 2014 07:00:00PM (+0300)

WHERE: Google Tel Aviv

We're going to have a meetup on Thursday, April 3rd at Google Israel's offices, Electra Tower, 98 Yigal Alon st., Tel Aviv.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The time above might say 6pm or 7pm or 8pm depending on how daylight savings time is processed. The meetup is at 7pm Israel Local Time (Which is DST right now).

This time we're going to have a social meetup! We'll be socializing and

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Meetup : Israel Less Wrong Meetup - Productivity Hacks

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Discussion article for the meetup : Israel Less Wrong Meetup - Productivity Hacks

WHEN: 20 March 2014 07:00:00PM (+0200)

WHERE: Google Tel Aviv

We're going to have a meetup on Thursday, March 20th at Google Israel's offices, Electra Tower, 98 Yigal Alon st., Tel Aviv.

This time we will be discussion productivity systems and hacks. We will have multiple speakers telling us how they became and stay production and the tricks they used. Anyone is welcome to bring their own systems and tricks - because the more we learn from each other,

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Meetup : Israel Less Wrong Meetup - Social and Board Games

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Discussion article for the meetup : Israel Less Wrong Meetup - Social and Board Games

WHEN: 06 March 2014 07:00:00PM (+0200)

WHERE: google tel aviv

We're going to have a meetup on Thursday, March 6th at Google Israel's offices, Electra Tower, 98 Yigal Alon st., Tel Aviv.

This time we're going to have a social meetup! Unlike previous meetups where we had a set agenda, an a talk - this time we'll be socializing and playing games. Specifically, we look forward to playing any cool board or card game anyone will bring.

We'll

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Meetup : Meet Up: Less Wrong Israel Meetup (Tel Aviv): Uses of Cryptography

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Discussion article for the meetup : Meet Up: Less Wrong Israel Meetup (Tel Aviv): Uses of Cryptography

WHEN: 30 January 2014 08:00:00PM (+0200)

WHERE: 7 begin ramat gan

We're going to have a meetup on Thursday, Jan 30th at VisionMap's offices, Gibor Sport House, 15th floor, 7 Menachem Begin st., Ramat-Gan.

Our program is:

20:00-20:15: Assembly

20:15-21:00: Main Talk

21:00-22:00: Dinner & Discussion

22:00-23:00: Rump Session (minitalks)

23:00-: End of official programming

Main Talk: Uses of Cryptography / Daniel Armak

How can you use Cryptography as a tool? Most conversations about cryptography deal with the available crypto primitives. This

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Meetup : Meetup: Less Wrong Israel Meetup (Tel Aviv) with special guest Tomer Kagan

Directions to the location:

Givatayim, Weizman 18, corner of Gush Etzion, Floor 2, Apt 3. Entry from Gush Etzion st, on the building is a Histadrut Haovdim sign.

Weizman street is perpendicular to Katzanelson st, a 15 minute walk from the diamond exchange from Ramat Gan.

To people coming from Jerusalem: Take line 480 from the central bus station, from Arlozorov in Tel Aviv take the bus described further below. There are return buses till 3:00 am.

To people coming from within Tel Aviv by bus:

Take line 55 from the station near the park (next to the protest tents), and get off on "Weiman - Jabotinsky" station. Go back a ways and you're there. The entry is from Gush... (read more)

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Meetup : Meetup: Less Wrong Israel Meetup (Tel Aviv) with special guest Tomer Kagan

Note: We've changed location this time. If anyone needs directions on how to get there, contact me!

Meetup : Meetup: Less Wrong Israel Meetup (Tel Aviv) with special guest Tomer Kagan

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Discussion article for the meetup : Meetup: Less Wrong Israel Meetup (Tel Aviv) with special guest Tomer Kagan

WHEN: 26 December 2013 08:00:00PM (+0200)

WHERE: weizman 18, givatayim, Israel

* UPDATE *

Sadly, Tomer had to move his flight to an earlier date, and so he will not be able to attend.

Instead, our main talk will be Solving real problems with economics by Aur Saraf .

Furthermore, we will be hosting another special guest, Joshua Fox, a MIRI Research Associate and representative in Israel who will tell us a little about his job

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Meetup : Israel (Tel Aviv) Meetup: Fun and Games with Cognitive Biases

The schedule got messed up in formatting. Here is a fixed version:

20:00 - 20:15: Assembly

20:15 - 21:00: Main Talk

21:00 - 22:00: Dinner and Discussion

22:00 - 23:00: Rump session

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Meetup : Israel LW meetup

I'll be there as a well.

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Meetup : Tel Aviv, Israel Meetup - Goal Clarification with special guest Cat from CFAR

We now have a location: Maze 9, Tel Aviv.

There is a nearby parking lot Balfour 6 (Big, close and somewhat expensive) Or if you'd rather not enter the center of town, there is a big, cheap parking lot at Harakevet 20 thats really easy to get to from out of town and is a 10 minute walk away.

Replying toHow to Not Get Offended

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How to Not Get Offended

Sometimes playing "the offended party" in a social situation has its advantages - especially when dealing with less rational people. Some people find it easier to empathize with you if you show signs of being offended, when all you are is unhappy with a certain state of affairs. I believe this has a net positive effect in certain situations - but must be used with caution because if you are actually offended it might reinforce that behaviour in you.

I'm also not sure if hiding your emotions like that is OK. (as in, morally solid and a good long-term strategy for socializing)

Also (as you stated in part 5), its worse to be offended and not know it. I haven't found a way to stay away from that aside from actually letting myself be offended for a few seconds or minutes before trying to deal with it every so often. Do you have a more effective method?

Replying toNew censorship: against hypothetical violence against identifiable people

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New censorship: against hypothetical violence against identifiable people

True. I was giving the ambiguity as an example of something people say to claim a policy won't work, without hashing out what that actually means in real execution. Almost every policy is somewhat ambiguous, yet there are many good policies.

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New censorship: against hypothetical violence against identifiable people

Beware Evaporative Cooling of Group Beliefs.

I am for the policy, although heavy-heartedly. I feel that one of the pillars of Rationality is that there should be no Stop Signs and this policy might produce some. On the other hand, I think PR is important, and that we must be aware of evaporative cooling that might happen if it is not applied.

On a neutral note - We aren't enemies here. We all have very similar utility functions, with slightly different weights on certain terminal values (PR) - which is understandable as some of us have more or less to lose from LW's PR.

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Replaceability as a virtue

I agree with what you say, and would like to point out that being partially replaceable is also a virtue.

It is said that a good manager is judged in his absence. Furthermore, really good ones don't seem to be doing much at all. My point that while being wholly replaceable is a virtue, as you described - but being partially replaceable is also a virtue, to any small degree of replaceableness.

While Anne could either obfuscate the DB to gain job security and create pains for her replacement, or clearly document it and put her job at risk - either are problematic. What if she has a family? Supporting your family is also... (read more)

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Meetup : Tel Aviv, Israel Meetup - Goal Clarification with special guest Cat from CFAR

Meetup : Israel Less Wrong Meetup - Social and Board Games

Meetup : Israel Less Wrong Meetup: Communities and the rationalist community

Meetup : Meetup: Less Wrong Israel Meetup (Tel Aviv) with special guest Tomer Kagan

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Meetup : Israel Less Wrong Meetup - Existential Risk and AI discussion

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Meetup : Israel Less Wrong Meetup - Productivity Hacks

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Meetup : Israel Less Wrong Meetup: Communities and the rationalist community

Meetup : Israel Less Wrong Meetup - Social, Board Games and FAI

Meetup : Less Wrong Israel Meetup (Tel Aviv): Futurism and The Future

Meetup : Israel Less Wrong Meetup - Social, Board Games and FAI

Meetup : Israel Less Wrong Meetup - Existential Risk and AI discussion

Meetup : Israel Less Wrong Meetup - Social and Board Games

Meetup : Israel Less Wrong Meetup - Productivity Hacks

Discussion article for the meetup : Israel Less Wrong Meetup: Communities and the rationalist community

Discussion article for the meetup : Israel Less Wrong Meetup - Social, Board Games and FAI

Discussion article for the meetup : Less Wrong Israel Meetup (Tel Aviv): Futurism and The Future

Discussion article for the meetup : Israel Less Wrong Meetup - Social, Board Games and FAI

Discussion article for the meetup : Israel Less Wrong Meetup - Existential Risk and AI discussion

Discussion article for the meetup : Israel Less Wrong Meetup - Social and Board Games

Discussion article for the meetup : Israel Less Wrong Meetup - Productivity Hacks

Discussion article for the meetup : Israel Less Wrong Meetup - Social and Board Games

Discussion article for the meetup : Meet Up: Less Wrong Israel Meetup (Tel Aviv): Uses of Cryptography

Discussion article for the meetup : Meetup: Less Wrong Israel Meetup (Tel Aviv) with special guest Tomer Kagan