London Meetup on 2011/1/2

Alexandros

On Sunday, January 2nd 2011 there will be a meetup the London area. As with previous meetups, the venue is Shakespeare's Head. The meeting will start at 14:00.

In order to keep us organised for 2011, I'm putting together a mailing list for LWers around the London area. If you'd like to be added to the list, please send me your e-mail address via private message.

On Sunday, January 2nd 2011 there will be a meetup the London area. As with previous meetups, the venue is Shakespeare's Head. The meeting will start at 14:00.

Homework!

Prompted by Anna asking what rationality techniques or areas LessWrong had yet to cover.

Need at least a few paragraphs for the discussion forums on the following.

ciphergoth:
How to think for more than 20 seconds
- Prompted by Dawkins video in which he laments only being able to think coherently for about a minute at a time.
- Methods: talking to oneself (my girlfriend kicks me when I wake her mumbling to myself at 5am); scribbling notes; mindmaps?
What LessWrong is to me (his elevator speech on the subject)
- prompt: he kept coming out with bits of it
Andrei (cev)
How to teach rationality to eight year olds
- Andrei's day job is teaching said eight year olds.
- Cooking to teach science? - try something, see what happens, keep notes, predict things - very practical results
David Gerard
poison memes
- find at least one coherent chunk in my tens of kilobytes of notes
Quickly estimating a belief's credit rating: is it likely to be able to pay its rent?
- I have no idea how to actually do this, so ideas are welcomed
- prompt: a philosopher (a Ben?) gave a philosophical question on morality, it struck me as "that's either very profound or complete rubbish" and I came out with something about it not having a good credit rating
How to ask the right question
- prompt: how to think for 20 seconds ... most of the work is asking the question, which takes me days to months. This is an area ripe for exploration.

Did anyone else present come out with something that struck you as very interesting that you or they should write up?

Edit: markdown is such a PITA. Is there a proper way to do lists with sub-lists? Edit 2: ah, space in front per level, that's got it.

Cooking to teach science?

ooh - awesome. I've actually already been thinking about how to teach basic Cooking-chemistry. I've already got quite a list of ideas..

I've also got some for Garden Biology, Bathtub Physics and several other sciences.

2wedrifid16y

A space before the asterices that you wish to make into the nested list. Probably looks better if one of the levels is of a different kind. The lesswrong stylesheet does not appear to include different bullet point formatting based on nest level. For example: 1. One * One sub 2. Two 3. Three

0[anonymous]16y

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