Pittsburgh meetup Nov. 20

3 Post author: Nick_Tarleton 16 November 2010 09:03PM

We'll be meeting at 7:00 this Saturday, at the Starbucks at 417 South Craig St (not on the CMU campus, as previously stated).

Hope to see you there!

Comments (15)

Comment author: gwillen 17 November 2010 05:58:47PM 2 points [-]

I am interested; will you post here when you have a room?

Comment author: abolitionist 17 November 2010 04:31:36PM 2 points [-]

What is the structure of your meetings exactly? Do you just discuss topics addressed here on lesswrong or is it more formal? I have been following lesswrong/overcomingbias/yudkowsky for some time now and would be interested in attending the meeting.

Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 20 November 2010 09:13:38AM 0 points [-]

Freeform discussion, most likely. This is only the second meetup here, so there's little precedent for (or against) specific activities.

Comment author: alexflint 17 November 2010 01:57:03PM 3 points [-]

We should start sharing tips on how to run effective meet-ups. Did you run some kind of presentation / structured discussion? What worked? What didn't? How did you get everyone engaged?

Comment author: Perplexed 16 November 2010 11:01:23PM 1 point [-]

Sounds interesting, but it is a long drive from Cleveland. Is anyone there associated with the Computer Science group around Pfenning and/or Harper?

Comment author: gwillen 17 November 2010 05:58:15PM 2 points [-]

I did my undergrad at CMU, and I know Pfenning and Harper. I think I know grad students who are advised by each. I don't think any of them frequent LessWrong, though.

Comment author: Perplexed 20 November 2010 03:18:28AM 0 points [-]

I won't be driving down this time. Maybe the next one.

Comment author: Darmani 16 November 2010 09:38:33PM 1 point [-]

I will, of course, be there.

Comment author: Hurt 21 November 2010 09:11:03PM 0 points [-]

I really enjoyed meeting all the other Pittsburgh Less Wrongers last night. I agree with Matt about turning this into a more regular event.

Comment author: Matt_Duing 21 November 2010 05:00:54AM 0 points [-]

We had a good turn-out and some interesting discussion at the meet-up tonight. Pittsburgh is a vibrant tech/university center, and I think LW meet-ups should occur here regularly. It's been suggested that future discussions should loosely center on a pre-determined topic, and I agree that this is a good idea. I invite anyone interested in planning further Pittsburgh meetings to PM me here, email me at mattduing at gmail dot com, or post on this thread.

Comment author: Kevin 21 November 2010 05:15:25AM 0 points [-]

I'll be in town from the 24th of November to December 4th and am happy to meet other Pittsburgh aspiring rationalists. Actually I think I met you once before... you work at Google and I drove you to the Green Day concert? Or maybe I'm thinking of someone else.

Comment author: gwillen 21 November 2010 06:54:46PM 0 points [-]

I work at Google, and am curious which of my coworkers you drove to a Green Day concert. :-)

Comment author: Matt_Duing 21 November 2010 05:33:37AM 0 points [-]

Hi Kevin. You're thinking of someone else but I'd very much like to meet you.

Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 21 November 2010 12:41:48AM 0 points [-]

Update: Moved to Lulu's, on the same block of Craig Street, for dinner.

Comment author: luispedro 20 November 2010 05:17:37PM 0 points [-]

I'd like to come. Where is it?