Jerusalem meetup Nov. 20

5 Post author: Vladimir_Gritsenko 15 November 2010 10:29PM

We'll be meeting in the Link cafe on Saturday, November 20, at 9 PM. With special guests of honor: Anna Salamon and Carl Shulman!

Comments (21)

Comment author: cousin_it 16 November 2010 02:04:53AM 3 points [-]

I'm so jealous of all those meetups happening. Never met anyone from LW in person.

Comment author: Vladimir_Gritsenko 16 November 2010 04:07:30AM 2 points [-]

You can move to Israel :-)

Comment author: cousin_it 16 November 2010 04:18:39AM *  2 points [-]

Oh that's another shortcoming of mine. I'm very, very inert. My life in Moscow right now is so extraordinarily easy and comfortable that you'd have to pull me to make me emigrate. Willing to make visits to anywhere in the world, though, as long as people invite me first :-)

Comment author: Daniel_Burfoot 16 November 2010 10:26:18AM 0 points [-]

Eh, it's not a shortcoming. Gibbs spent nearly his whole life at Yale, Kant never traveled more than 100 miles from Konigsberg.

Comment author: prase 16 November 2010 11:47:42AM 1 point [-]

If there was a Moscow meetup, I would consider participation.

Comment author: cousin_it 18 November 2010 01:11:13AM 3 points [-]

You're Russian??? Your name doesn't happen to be Vladimir, does it?

Comment author: prase 18 November 2010 08:59:38AM 0 points [-]

I am not, but at the moment I live in Russia. Your name happens to be Vladimir, by the way?

Comment author: cousin_it 18 November 2010 02:24:53PM 0 points [-]

Yeah.

Comment author: [deleted] 16 November 2010 02:36:37AM 1 point [-]

Have you considered a more proactive solution to your problem (i.e. introducing people from your geographical area to LW)?

Comment author: Vaniver 16 November 2010 02:40:05AM 1 point [-]

Or, still proactive but less dependent on a worthwhile social network, trying to start a meetup in your geographical area?

Comment author: cousin_it 16 November 2010 03:01:09AM *  1 point [-]

For some reason I'm awfully bad at bringing people together. There's something about the task that I can't seem to grasp, no matter how much I try and fail. Is there anyone on LW who started out with no talent for this, but managed to improve through hard work?

Comment author: AnnaSalamon 16 November 2010 10:32:28AM 8 points [-]

To call a LW meet-up, all you need to do is: 1. Announce it on here, with a time (a week or so in advance) and a location (somewhere where a group can gather and still hear one another; e.g. a quieter-end pizza place), 2. Show up yourself, with a sign that says "less wrong meet-up".

Any chance you might try? There seem to be a number of cool LW-ers from Moscow.

Comment author: Vladimir_Gritsenko 16 November 2010 06:48:17PM 2 points [-]

I'd add step 0: have Singulairty Institute members come for a long visit near you, thus serving as the impetus of the meetup :-)

Comment author: bisserlis 16 November 2010 05:50:18AM 3 points [-]

Yes. I tried and failed to run a student social/special interest group for a while, interspersed with low- to medium-quality leadership conferences on occasion. After a year (of the school variety, so nine months) of running weekly meetings and hosting lecture events I got to be pretty decent.

Comment author: blogospheroid 16 November 2010 05:10:00AM *  5 points [-]

Another Vladimir!

What is it with this site and that name?

(No offence meant! Please take it sportingly!) ;)

Comment author: Vladimir_Gritsenko 16 November 2010 06:55:03PM 1 point [-]

Actually, I was wondering that myself! I differentiate myself by the fact that I'm among the very first Vladimirs around here. (I've been an OB reader for three years now, I think.)

Comment author: JoshuaFox 21 November 2010 08:05:05AM 2 points [-]

Thank you for organizing the meet-up, Vladimir.

There were eight people there last night, and it was a great opportunity to see people in meatspace, after years online.

Comment author: Meni_Rosenfeld 16 November 2010 04:42:46PM 1 point [-]

I'm interested in being there, but that's a pretty long drive for me. Is there any chance to make it in Tel-Aviv instead?

Comment author: DanArmak 17 November 2010 10:20:21AM 2 points [-]

If it helps, I'm coming to the meetup from T-A, and I can give you a ride to Jerusalem and back.

Comment author: AnnaSalamon 16 November 2010 05:06:23PM *  2 points [-]

Not this time, although I could be talked into doing a Tel Aviv meet-up in a few weeks. This is meet-up is actually flowing out of a Tel Aviv Transhumanist meet-up a week and a half ago (do you know that group? do you want their contact info?) which, in retrospect, I really should have announced on here.

Comment author: Meni_Rosenfeld 16 November 2010 07:08:58PM *  1 point [-]

do you know that group? do you want their contact info?

No, and no need - I trust I'll find them should the need arise.