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I'm so jealous of all those meetups happening. Never met anyone from LW in person.
You can move to Israel :-)
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 :-)
Eh, it's not a shortcoming. Gibbs spent nearly his whole life at Yale, Kant never traveled more than 100 miles from Konigsberg.
If there was a Moscow meetup, I would consider participation.
You're Russian??? Your name doesn't happen to be Vladimir, does it?
I am not, but at the moment I live in Russia. Your name happens to be Vladimir, by the way?
Yeah.
Have you considered a more proactive solution to your problem (i.e. introducing people from your geographical area to LW)?
Or, still proactive but less dependent on a worthwhile social network, trying to start a meetup in your geographical area?
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?
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.
I'd add step 0: have Singulairty Institute members come for a long visit near you, thus serving as the impetus of the meetup :-)
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.