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Meetup: Bay Area: Sunday, March 7th, 7pm
Eliezer Yudkowsky, Alicorn, and Michael Vassar will be present.
Some other extra guests - Wei Dai, Stuart Armstrong, and Nick Tarleton - will be also be there, following our short Decision Theory mini-workshop.
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Comments (43)
Can I come?
I think you are the only one here who can answer that question. Do you need special accommodations, like for instance a laptop with Microsoft Office 2003 or earlier installed to run on?
I don't really need any special accomodations, but I'd appreciate if you could let me take any extra metal that you might not need. Do you have a recycling bin for aluminum cans at the SIAI house?
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Sure, just wear a nametag...
Why is that important?
Because I'm curious about who you are. If nobody shows up claiming (via nametag or other mechanism) to be Clippy, I won't find out.
But what if you get hostile toward me because of my values?
Meh, I already live in a houseful of consequentialists and get along fine.
You don't think you'd be able to recognize Clippy by eir behavior?
Nope, pretty sure I couldn't.
Leave large amounts of short aluminium strips lying around. Damage paperclips and watch for pained expressions. Examine people's fingers for calluses from manipulating small pieces of metal too much.
Of course, this wouldn't work if Clippy's gone entirely automated.
I will be really impressed with Clippy's method acting if ey shows up to a meetup in character.
You really want the "it" pronoun here, I think.
"it" is an impersonal pronoun. Clippy is clearly a person. The singular "they" could work, but I don't like it because it can be easily confused with the more common plural "they".
Much less in costume!
Um, are Alicorn and I being downvoted for Spivak pronouns? (parent voted back up to 0)
Can we start guessing now? I guess Wei Dai.
Wei Dai hasn't identified himself as Clippy, at least.
I'll be there, possibly with another.
On Hacker News: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1173145
I wish I could come, but it's on the other side of the continent for me. Have fun!
If anyone's driving from Berkeley or thereabouts, there are at least two people who would be interested in carpooling and willing to chip in for gas. (Aside from me, there's Paul G on the meetup.com page; not sure what his username here is.)
I'll be driving from Berkeley, but can only offer a one way trip.
Aw frig, this continues the Murphy's Law of Scheduling tradition for me and these meetups. Have some great arguments for me!
In addition to bought'n snacks, I might cook something for the event. Any requests?
More of that delicious creamy soup you made would be pretty awesome.
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