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We (the two persons who have been at the Fall Meetups Everywhere Meetup in Bordeaux) are going to have an extra non-Schelling-date meetup in Bordeaux on 2026-02-08 at 14:00.
Location: Initial meeting in the park Square of Professor Jacques Lasserre, behind 164/166 cours de l'Argonne (Maison Internationale), tram B Bergonié, entries from rue Grateloup and rue Colette, far side from the cours de l'Argonne: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/44.824715/-0.576945 — I will have an A4 ACX Meetup sign. – https://plus.codes/8CPXRCFF+V6
So that I know if anyone is coming, please mark Yes or Maybe at LW, or write me an email. I will try to make sure we are within the park / within the line of sight of... (read more)
Between the ACX Meetups Everywhere, a summer meetup.
Location: Espalanade Charles de Gaulle (the above-ground park in the middle of Mériadeck), between fountain and Hôtel du Département https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/44.83732/-0.58601 , on Saturday the administration should be closed, so we can use their open but roof-covered terrasse before the entrance as the meeting point in case of a rain.
Send me your phone number if you expect to be late and want an SMS when we decide which direction we shift. I will bring an A4 sign with «ACX Meetup» on it. I usually wear a mask in high-stranger-density settings.
Please RSVP on LessWrong so I know that someone is indeed coming. This will be a small... (read more)
(There was an email that said that I won't be the only person coming)
This year's Spring ACX Meetup everywhere in Bordeaux.
Location: Initial meeting in the park Square of Professor Jacques Lasserre, behind 164/166 cours de l'Argonne (Maison Internationale), tram B Bergonié, entries from rue Grateloup and rue Colette, far side from the cours de l'Argonne: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/44.824715/-0.576945 — I will have an A4 ACX Meetup sign. – https://plus.codes/8CPXRCFF+V6
So that I know if anyone is coming, please mark Yes or Maybe at LW, or write me an email. I will try to make sure we are within the park / within the line of sight of the specified location for at least 15 minutes after the posted time. Email me your phone number if you want me to text you updates if/when we move from there (e.g. if you are not sure about being able to make it on time but are interested to join a bit later).
Contact: acx-meetup-2025-04-12@weboroso.anonaddy.com
It looks like in reality we (the 3 people with «yes» responses) will be gathering around 13:00–13:10 at the same place (but we plan to also be there at 14:00 as promised).
(I am the organiser and I have posted some of the previous iterations myself, this time the event is created from the Meetups Everywhere list)
Based on private messages and experience, I do expect the meetup to have at least two and no more than five participants. Based on the last time, I expect that we will meet around 14:00 (the posted time) and will stay around 15 minutes within the line of sight of the specified meeting place, with the sign visible. Afterwards, no promises about not putting away the sign, and no idea if we move to a different part of the park / to a neaby place (depends on weather and mood). I won't have access to email there (so as posted PM me a number if you want an SMS when we decide on further movements).
A follow up to this year's Meetups Everywhere in Bordeaux Metropole (Gironde, France). This time in the center of Bordeaux.
Day and time: Saturday 09 December, 2023-12-09, 14:00 local.
Location: Espalanade Charles de Gaulle (the above-ground park in the middle of Mériadeck), between fountain and Hôtel du Département https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/44.83732/-0.58601 , on Saturday the administration should be closed, so we can use their open but roof-covered terrasse before the entrance as the meeting point in case of a rain.
Send me your phone number if you expect to be late and want an SMS when we decide which direction we shift. I will bring an A4 sign with «ACX Meetup» on it. I usually wear a... (read more)
Great!
I wouldn't be sure I count as a rationalist; I read everything on ACX (and have read SSC, including backlog), but I have stopped reading LW after not that long.
I have moved to Bordeaux a year ago (right after the move I wasn't able to commit in advance to being available on any specific day, so I didn't run a meetup last September), but during the spring Meetups Everywhere there was a person who showed up and has lived in Bordeaux longer than me, so I guess you two would have a chance to run your small ACX meetup a year or two ago…
I do indeed work on Peixotto campus (like the other person who was at the spring meetup — not sure if they will come this time).
Je ne suis pas sûr si je compte comme un rationaliste… (Par exemple, je crois que la position de Scott Aaronson sur AI est beaucoup plus raisonnable que ce qu'on trouve sur LW).
Mais pour un réunion «ACX en général» je crois qu'on va trouver un sujet intéréssant à tous pour parler … si il y a de «tous», et je ne suis pas 100% sûr.
I'm Michael.
I am trying to see if there is any chance to run a meetup in Bordeaux…
No specific plan, general ACX readers (including occasional) targeted. Have yet to see a small meetup where lack of plan was a problem! So come whoever you are, we'll look for a common topic together.
Let's meet at Place Victoire, south of the column/the Turtles.
Let's precommit to have a natural-parting-point one hour after meeting, and if someone else wants to stay longer, I will stay too.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/?query=44.83054%2C-0.57268#map=19/44.83057/-0.57262
I wear a mask in places with a lot of strangers, and I will be holding a foldable-keyboard handheld. I will also write an A4 «ACX Meetup» sign. Let's meet at 17:00... (read more)
We have started as in-person Munich SSC meetup during the «meetups everywhere» drive. Unfortunately, we were later forced to turn online-only. Fortunately, it means that coming is easier, and everyone is welcome!
Turns out that even when in-person meetups are possible, it makes sense to also have an online meetup going as a parallel thing.
We are a pretty unfocused group, so feel free to drop by if you want to discuss something that you hope might be interesting to people reading SSC/ACX or LW — or hear something like that discussed. Agreeing with LW conclusions or Scott Alexander positions on whatever is neither expected nor discouraged (either choice can lead to a detailed argument…).
End time is just an indication — the meetup lasts as long as we want to talk about something, and it is also perfectly normal to leave whenever you prefer (or have) to.
We have started as in-person Munich SSC meetup during the «meetups everywhere» drive. Unfortunately, we had to become online-only for the time being. Fortunately, it means that coming is easier, and everyone is welcome!
We are a pretty unfocused group, so feel free to drop by if you want to discuss something that you hope might be interesting to people reading SSC/ACX or LW — or hear something like that discussed. Agreeing with LW conclusions or Scott Alexander positions on whatever is neither expected nor discouraged (either choice can lead to a detailed argument…).
End time is just an indication — the meetup lasts as long as we want to talk about something, and it is also perfectly normal to leave whenever you prefer (or have) to.
We have started as in-person Munich SSC meetup during the «meetups everywhere» drive. Unfortunately, we had to become online-only for the time being. Fortunately, it means that coming is easier, and everyone is welcome!
We are a pretty unfocused group, so feel free to drop by if you want to discuss something that you hope might be interesting to people reading SSC/ACX or LW — or hear something like that discussed. Agreeing with LW conclusions or Scott Alexander positions on whatever is neither expected nor discouraged (either choice can lead to a detailed argument…).
End time is just an indication — the meetup lasts as long as we want to talk about something, and it is also perfectly normal to leave whenever you prefer (or have) to.
And you are completely right.
I meant that designing a working FOOM-able AI (or non-FOOMable AGI, for that matter) is vastly harder than finding a few hypothetical hihg-risk scenarios.
I.e. walking the walk is harder than talking the talk.
If we are not inventive enough to find a menace not obviously shielded by lead+ocean, more complex tasks like, say, actually designing FOOM-able AI is beyond us anyway…
You say "presumably yes". The whole point of this discussion is to listen to everyone who will say "obviously no"; their arguments would automatically apply to all weaker boxing techniques.
How much evidence do you have that you can count accurately (or make a corect request to computer and interpret results correctly)? How much evidence that probability theory is a good description of events that seem random?
Once you get as much evidence for atomic theory as you have for the weaker of the two claims above, describing your degree of confidence requires more efforts than just naming a number.