Do you also miss regular rationality meet-ups in your local town? Did you read so many articles on LessWrong, SlateStarCodex/AstralCodexTen, orsimilarblogs and want to discuss all their interesting ideas? Do you want to share (or peer-review) your ideas on stuff like reflective equilibria, ugly buildings , AI timelines, or the why and how of market failure (or functioning)? Do you want to meet some friendly rationalist (or adjacent) people?
If so, then it's time to re-boot the local rationality group. I propose to meet on Wednesday 6th of November at 18:30 somewhere in the centre (pm me for the details). If you're a little bit late that's fine, but I suggest arriving before 19:00.
Topic
We will discuss a short and light articleScott Alexander's recent post on Nietzsche's morality (see also the audio version). Afterwards, there will still be time for free discussions / socializing (let's see if there's interesting topics besides the fresh US election results).
If you read the text, you can try to write down/remember some thoughts/remarks/questions so you can more easily share them.[1]
Other info
feel free to come even if you're not sure about, have not been to any meet-ups before or are not sure if you are into LessWrong/ACX/rationality/EA enough
meet-up language will be English or German depending on the proficiency of the attendees
I won't provide (substantial) food, so you might want to bring food or order online (maybe together with others); if we like the location we can also consider asking for the kitchen and cooking for ourselves, next time
this might be common sense, but still[2]: please do not come (unmasked) if you have (recently had) symptoms of colds/covid/flu
Post-script
The first Wednesday of each month seems like a good Schelling point for monthly meet-ups—it's a common frequency in other cities and fits between local EA meet-ups. If the venue works well, I can organize the room and post announcements for a while, but I expect to move away (or lose interest) at some point. If you enjoy events like this and would be interested in organizing, step up.
What, When, Where
Do you also miss regular rationality meet-ups in your local town? Did you read so many articles on LessWrong, SlateStarCodex/AstralCodexTen, or similar blogs and want to discuss all their interesting ideas? Do you want to share (or peer-review) your ideas on stuff like reflective equilibria, ugly buildings , AI timelines, or the why and how of market failure (or functioning)? Do you want to meet some friendly rationalist (or adjacent) people?
If so, then it's time to re-boot the local rationality group. I propose to meet on Wednesday 6th of November at 18:30 somewhere in the centre (pm me for the details). If you're a little bit late that's fine, but I suggest arriving before 19:00.
Topic
We will discuss
a short and light articleScott Alexander's recent post on Nietzsche's morality (see also the audio version). Afterwards, there will still be time for free discussions / socializing (let's see if there's interesting topics besides the fresh US election results).If you read the text, you can try to write down/remember some thoughts/remarks/questions so you can more easily share them.[1]
Other info
Post-script
The first Wednesday of each month seems like a good Schelling point for monthly meet-ups—it's a common frequency in other cities and fits between local EA meet-ups. If the venue works well, I can organize the room and post announcements for a while, but I expect to move away (or lose interest) at some point. If you enjoy events like this and would be interested in organizing, step up.
I'm planning to post mine as a comment to this post
see also: https://infektionsradar.gesund.bund.de/en/covid/sewage
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