jsalvatier comments on An Outside View on Less Wrong's Advice - Less Wrong

60 Post author: Mass_Driver 07 July 2011 04:46AM

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Comment author: jsalvatier 03 July 2011 02:59:24AM 4 points [-]

Did you get the same bristling in live communication (minicamp/meetups)?

Comment author: Mass_Driver 03 July 2011 06:14:37AM 9 points [-]

Minicamp, no, because it was so skills-focused. There was a real sense that we could apply the skills to any goals that seemed interesting to us. Meetups, yes. Many of the meetups I've been to have involved praise competitions, i.e., let's see who can all suck up to the SIAI more intelligently.

Comment author: orthonormal 13 July 2011 04:41:37PM 3 points [-]

Many of the meetups I've been to have involved praise competitions, i.e., let's see who can all suck up to the SIAI more intelligently.

Really? Huh. I've now gone to ~10 meetups in 5 geographic areas, and the only one that might have fit that description (although I don't think it did) was the very first Overcoming Bias meetup in the Bay Area.

It would probably be rude for me to ask which meetups felt that way to you.