Bay Area Lesswrong Meet up Sunday May 16

2 Post author: LucasSloan 14 May 2010 05:37AM

No invitations to Benton House have been forthcoming for the last couple months, so I thought we might do one located in a restaurant somewhere.  I would suggest Holder's Country Inn, but if anyone else has any suggestions, I'm more than willing to change venue.  I would suggest a meeting time of 7, but that is also amenable to change.

Edit:  We're meeting at the Inn.  I'll be out front at 7 with a sign saying Less Wrong.

Comments (14)

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 14 May 2010 06:15:05AM 1 point [-]

You should talk to the Benton people to see if they're interested in hosting another. The Benton place is really nice for them because they don't have to travel anywhere--they are a fairly large group that's short on cars.

Comment author: orthonormal 14 May 2010 07:12:10PM 0 points [-]

I'm definitely up for it if there's a reasonable quorum.

Comment author: LucasSloan 14 May 2010 09:43:09PM 0 points [-]

I and 2 other people will be there.

Comment author: AnnaSalamon 14 May 2010 08:09:10PM 1 point [-]

We could have one here at Benton this Sunday, or we could go for June 5 so that folks have warning and can plan. My feeling is that the latter would be better. What do you think?

Comment author: LucasSloan 14 May 2010 09:43:38PM 0 points [-]

Given the fact that those two dates are 3 weeks apart, I don't see any reason why there couldn't be meet-ups on both dates.

Comment author: AnnaSalamon 15 May 2010 12:11:19AM 3 points [-]

Having meet-ups here diverts a lot of time from all 12 or so Benton-ites, Eliezer if he comes, and Michael Vassar if he comes.

Perhaps a net cost of $2k or so in diverted time.

Which isn't to say we shouldn't maybe have more meet-ups; many have suggested we should.

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 15 May 2010 08:17:44AM 1 point [-]

Justin Shovelain says everyone takes Saturday off anyway, right? It seems likely that Michael Vassar and Eliezer also benefit from occasional breaks.

Comment author: Kevin 15 May 2010 09:15:13AM 2 points [-]

Maybe you can have a meetup on the 16th at Holder's Country Inn and whoever wants to from Benton can go, and then there can still be a June 5th meetup at Benton? Though if it's more than 8 people it stops working as well at a restaurant.

Comment author: AlexMennen 16 May 2010 09:31:23PM 0 points [-]

Lucas Sloan, I, and one other person will be at the Holder's Country Inn for sure. Anyone else who wants to come can.

Comment author: orthonormal 15 May 2010 02:05:14AM *  0 points [-]

ARGH— how do you always know which weekends I'll be out of town? It's been uncanny so far, and if you add June 5th, I'll have missed the last 3 LW meetups before moving away from California.

Is there a reason why that weekend would be preferable to the week before or the week after?

Comment author: AnnaSalamon 15 May 2010 03:39:50AM 1 point [-]

I'll be out of town the weekend before. The week after would work for me; it's just farther away.

Comment author: orthonormal 16 May 2010 08:03:31AM 1 point [-]

If anyone wants a ride from the East Bay, send me a message.

Comment author: LucasSloan 17 May 2010 05:44:41AM 4 points [-]

A summary of the event:

Three people including myself showed up. We had a decent discussion of the meaning of subjective probability under various conditions, as well as many digressions, into fields such a deconversion and the meaning of worthiness as it applies to fiction. We left the restaurant and went to Benton House where we chatted for about an hour before I left.

Comment author: Academian 17 May 2010 05:19:52PM 0 points [-]

Hey, sorry I missed it; out of the country right now. I'll be up for more meetups in the fall though!