TheOtherDave comments on Starting a LW meet-up is easy. - Less Wrong

39 Post author: AnnaSalamon 01 February 2011 04:05AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (56)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: bentarm 03 February 2011 01:56:56PM 1 point [-]

I'm almost certain this post will be useful, in that it will result in there being more LW meet-ups than there would otherwise have been. But, seriously, did anyone actually need the cotents? In order to arrange to meet some people who frequent a website you visit regularly, post something to the website saying that you'd like to meet them and where and when.

I'm genuinely curious as to why this will help (as I said, I'm sure it will). Is it because it explicitly gives people "permission" to go ahead and organise their own meet-up? Again, there can't possibly be any information in the post that any regular LW reader couldn't figure out for themselves.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 03 February 2011 02:27:03PM 8 points [-]

It might be implicitly providing the information that there isn't anything else that needs to be known/done to successfully conduct such a meetup, which is hard to be certain about.

Comment author: Psy-Kosh 11 February 2011 07:10:50PM 1 point [-]

I'll explicitly say "yes, that's exactly the main key thing I got from it."

Comment author: Curiouskid 09 December 2011 12:41:46AM 0 points [-]

Agreed. Knowing about "unknown unknowns" is very important.

Comment author: Kevin 11 February 2011 07:42:45PM 0 points [-]

Let's call it trivial uncertainty