pre comments on Church vs. Taskforce - Less Wrong

37 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 28 March 2009 09:23AM

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Comment author: pre 28 March 2009 02:31:23PM 2 points [-]

I've never been to a mensa meeting. On the web they seem to do little other than congratulate each other for being so smart. Do they do more when they meet in meatspace?

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 28 March 2009 09:18:42PM 2 points [-]

I attended a Mensa meeting. It seemed around the level of a small regional science-fiction convention. Not really enough for me to have conversations with people.

Comment author: ciphergoth 29 March 2009 11:54:39AM 2 points [-]

I went to Orbital 2008 in London largely in the hope of having such conversations, and despite IIRC 1500 attendees I found it a lot harder than I had hoped. I suspect that I could do better in future by making more advance effort to find the right people and bring them together; I'm inclined to try to do so for Orbital 2010.