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Where are we?

by Paul Crowley

2nd Apr 2009

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I'm enjoying lesswrong.com a lot so far, and it sounds like the last LW/OB meetup was a lot of fun. MBlume asks:

So far there've only been LW/OB meetups in the Bay area -- is there any way we could plot the geographic distribution of LW members and determine whether there are other spots where we could get a good meetup going?

I don't think that there are so many of us that we need an automated system for this; the threading system should be enough.I'll post a few top-level comments for various parts of the world, and encourage you all to follow up and tell us where you are. Ideally, find a comment that has where you live in it already and add "me too".

I'll try to keep this post updated with useful things. I can't wait to play Paranoid Debating!

Edit: Please don't post where you live in a new top-level comment! Try to find a comment referring to the rough geographic region you live in and post under that; it'll make this post easier to navigate. I've divided the world into three (North America, Europe, everywhere else); posting under those comments will help. Thanks!

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The Less Wrong visit map:

United States 31,827
United Kingdom 6,662
Canada 4,399
Australia 2,943
Finland 1,726
Germany 1,502
Netherlands 1,001
Sweden 989
New Zealand 750
France 691
Russia 577
Ireland 524
Brazil 434
Israel 410
Denmark 390
Croatia 331
India 327
Belgium 322
Japan 293
Poland 288
Austria 261
Norway 247
China 233
Italy 192
Spain 190

And some more detail:

(edit: credit to Google Analytics for all of the heavy lifting in this comment)

8AllanCrossman17y

This map would be better if it was based on visits divided by population. Currently it shows America as much darker than Britain even though Britain has about the same per capita LW readership... (and a considerably higher readership per landmass). (Of course, getting the population for each country would be a right pain, so I don't blame you.)

4Paul Crowley17y

This map would be best of all if it were an LW cartogram!

0Suryc1114y

Is there an updated version of this? I don't have the know-how to do it myself.

0[anonymous]14y

The colour coding should be based on visits per unit area or per unit population, not total visit...

0khafra17y

Great stat visualization and breakdown! But it's not in first normal form: There's two Bellevues, and the St. Petersburg entry doesn't specify whether it's Florida (which has a blob in the St. Petersburg/Tampa area, and no entry for Tampa) or Russia (which seems to be the origin of a few prominent LW'ers). I'm not sure of the most efficient way to resolve the ambiguities.

0matt17y

All of the heavy lifting here is done by Google Analytics. (The St. Petersburg entry in the "US visitors by city" pdf is the one in the US).

[-]robzahra17y50

This post is a good idea, but wouldn't it be easier for everyone to join the less wrong facebook group? I'm not positive, but I think the geographical sorting can then be easily viewed automatically. You could then invite the subgroups to their own group, and easily send group messages.

1Paul Crowley17y

I thought of that, but quite a few folk seemed to object to the idea of using Facebook here, so I thought this was the safest option. I'm in the Facebook group too, as Paul Crowley.

[-]Epiphany14y30

The location I'm providing is a little vague because I want to say where I am, but posting that as a female almost guarantees a loss of anonymity in various contexts. I'm in the Western United States. For those using find in page, my region includes:

Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.

[-]Paul Crowley17y30

Post in this thread if you live in Europe.

3gaffa17y

Post here if you live in Sweden.

2Henrik_Jonsson17y

Umeå, Sweden.

0Dojan13y

Same here! Are you still around?

2Jens17y

Stockholm, Sweden.

1luff16y

Härnösand, Sweden.

1NihilCredo16y

Uppsala, Sweden.

0gaffa15y

Gothenburg, Sweden.

3infotropism17y

People of Belgium, unite behind me ... if any.

0Plasmon15y

I'm from Belgium

2Emile17y

Post in this thread if you live in France.

1rnollet3y

I do. Currently in Reims.

1Emile17y

I live in Paris

1igoresque17y

Yvelines, next to Paris

1bogdanb17y

Right next to Paris myself, Palaiseau en fait.

0Gyrodiot10y

Greetings, from Toulouse.

0pangel15y

I am too.

0MasterGrape16y

I live near Carcassonne

0Morendil17y

I'm in Paris

2Paul Crowley17y

I live in London, UK.

3MichaelHoward17y

I'm in London, and till we organize something I recommend the UKTA/ExtroBritannia meets.

3taw17y

Another Londoner here. By power of statistics there should be enough of us to organize it even the next weekend if we wanted. If anybody else wants to organize that, go ahead, I don't really have much experience in this. But in case there are no other volunteers I'll do it. So if any Londoners interested in rationalist meetup in some coffeeshop or pub, just email me at Tomasz.Wegrzanowski@gmail.com If there will be 5 or more interested people, I'll suggest some times and places and hopefully we can set the first meetup this way. The first one is always the hardest, the next one will hopefully be less ad hoc than that.

2Paul Crowley17y

I'd go for a weekday evening in a pub in town to kick off...

2JulianMorrison17y

Weekdays are useless to anyone not actually in London - even close by, it would take too long to travel in after work. Also, pubs are hugely overrated for serious talk, where you want less echoes, less music, less TV and less shouty people. Try a Starbucks? Edit: meeting near a station or at least Zone 1 tube is also a plus.

0taryneast15y

I'm up for that - Tue/Wed/Thu (tho not in silly season). Alternatively, a weekend midday/afternoon, unless you'd like to come out to Windsor. :)

0Paul Crowley15y

The post you're replying to is very old, but see Calling LW Londoners - a meetup on Sunday 2011-01-02 seems likely!

0taryneast15y

Fantastic. Thanks for that :)

2JulianMorrison17y

Reading, UK, and UKTA is excellent.

1taryneast15y

I'm in Slough - work in London. This thread is a couple years old, though, any current activity?

0MichaelHoward15y

Hi. Yes, it's still going. The last meeting "The neuropsychology of self control - and its implications for AI and brain simulation" was on 13 November. See my links above for future meetings, and hope to see you there :)

0taryneast15y

Cool. Thanks. That does sound interesting. I did check out the group page, but I noticed that you can't see the calendar unless you're a member... but I don't like to join unless I can see the calendar of past events (to see if they're local/relevant/interesting etc)... catch-22 sometimes ;) Of course, I could join, look, then unjoin - but that's far more effort... especially when you have to be approved first.

0MichaelHoward15y

Hmm... that does seem a little foot-shooting, unless you join too many groups and want a reason not to ;) There's nothing in the ExtroBritannia list's calendar though, but you can see the events on the blog.

0taryneast15y

That would be an accurate description of my life ;) Currently I am interested in way too many things - and have a habit of joining up to all of them to see if I'm interested enough to continue going along... Unfortunately I am limited by time from going to everything I'd like.

2marc17y

I'm in London

1[anonymous]17y

Devon, UK. London meets are a bit far at the moment, but I may be moving.

1Roko17y

Edinburgh, republic of Scotland ;-) I come down to london fairly frequently. it is cheap if I have notice of a month.

1AlanCrowe17y

I'm also in Edinburgh, Scotland.

1[anonymous]17y

Aye, me too.

0sark16y

me too, University of Edinburgh

0strangeloop16y

London as well.

0Larks17y

Eastbourne, East Sussex Edit: Also Oxford, UK in termtime.

2oliverbeatson17y

Another Eastbourne, East Sussex.

0Alexandros17y

Guildford, UK. Definitely up for any London meetups.

0mathemajician17y

Yay London

1[anonymous]17y

Denmark?

1Torben17y

Copenhagen (city, not snuff).

1[anonymous]17y

Aarhus (city with smile).

0Grrrr16y

Copenhagen.

1XiXiDu17y

Germany, NRW, Gütersloh

1Sebastian_Hagen17y

Rostock, Germany.

0Simon Fischer15y

Cologne, Germany Xixidu, are you interested in a mini-lw-meetup in nrw?

0Tripitaka15y

Gießen, Germany.

1Tripitaka15y

I suspect there may be some undercover-readers out of Frankfurt am Main, see: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/lesswrong.com# " It has a relatively good traffic rank in the city of Frankfurt Am Main (#3,397)." If there are, hands up by any means, we could have enough people for a german meet-up!

0TrE15y

Also Gießen, Germany.

0yrff_jebat15y

Berlin, Germany

0jasticE16y

Munich, Germany

0David Althaus15y

me too.

0[anonymous]16y

Stuttgart, Germany

1Bongo17y

Post in this thread if you live in Finland.

1Kaj_Sotala17y

Helsinki here.

1vizikahn17y

I live in Oulu.

1kluge17y

Oulu as well.

1Bongo17y

1Cunya17y

Tampere, but a Hungarian.

0Jonii16y

Helsinki

1Richard_Kennaway17y

Norwich, UK.

1abigailgem17y

Newport, South Wales (Casnewydd, De Cymru). Rarely in London, willing to travel to Bristol or Swansea.

1gjm17y

Cambridge, UK.

1PaulWright17y

Me too! (But gjm knew that).

1gjm17y

I'm mildly surprised that so far there's only the two of us.

0Viliam_Bur15y

Slovakia, Bratislava

0mindbound15y

Riga, LV.

0emil15y

Anybody from Romania?

0ChrisPine16y

Oslo, Norway

0FourFire11y

Oslo, Norway.

0steven046117y

Post in this thread if you live in the Netherlands.

1steven046117y

I live in Amsterdam.

0Morendil13y

Do you still live there? I'll be there on vacation next week, and I'd be interested in meeting up (general policy of looking for opportunities to meet people IRL that I only know online - if that's not your cup of tea, I'd totally understand).

0Lethalmud13y

Present!

[-]Paul Crowley17y30

Post in this thread if you live in the US or Canada.

3Michelle17y

Victoria, BC

1Owen_Richardson15y

Also Victoria, BC. (Same person as user "Eoghanalbar", which I'm not using anymore.)

0Eoghanalbar16y

Also Victoria, BC. Home of the sasquatch and pacific tree octopus, and where the conservative party is named 'the liberals'.

3PhilGoetz17y

Washington DC. Im in ur capital advizin ur prezident.

6MBlume17y

glad I'm not the only Bayesian who loves OotS

6Eliezer Yudkowsky17y

rest assured...

1ChrisBrown17y

In the NoVA/DC area as well.

1Jack17y

Me too.

0DSimon15y

I'm not officially in DC, but I'm close enough to have a metro stop within walking distance of my house.

0Document16y

Within 160 miles or ~3 hours of DC according to Mapquest.

0Hook16y

In between DC and Baltimore

0RobinZ16y

Likewise, in the DC area.

0Benquo17y

likewise - DC

2swestrup17y

Montreal, Canada

1Pierre-Andre17y

Québec, Qc, Canada.

0Nebu17y

Me too: Montreal, Canada.

2CronoDAS17y

Post in this thread if you live within what you consider easy driving distance from New York City.

1robzahra17y

NYC area: Rob Zahra, AlexU, and Michael Vassar sometimes...

1Zvi17y

I live in NYC proper.

0Kenny17y

Brooklyn

1crazypaki17y

ay, North Kersey for me and I am in the city 3-4 days a week

1[anonymous]17y

What if you do, but don't have a car? (Note: I don't regardless.)

1CronoDAS17y

I live in central New Jersey.

1dclayh17y

Me too: Princeton.

0olimay17y

I said Princeton above, since it's my mailing address (and recognizable to non-locals.) Close enough, I guess, and anyway I've recently been spending most of my time (here) in Frist.

0xamdam16y

Long Island, work in NYC

0olimay17y

Princeton, NJ. Easy train ride up. I visit NYC every other weekend.

0dreeves17y

Driving distance? I live in Manhattan, sans car.

0glenra17y

Manhattan

0Mike Bishop17y

I visit NYC several times a year - whatever that's worth. I live in Chicago though.

1evtujo17y

Montana

0chesh17y

Salt Lake City. Seems we're the entire mountain time delegation.

0hamnox15y

I don't think words can convey just how happy seeing this post has made me. I am also from Salt Lake City :)

0jtolds15y

hey me too!

0hamnox15y

Great! Perhaps we could stage a meetup.

0chesh15y

Oh, hey there! Nice to know I'm not completely alone here.

1SarahNibs17y

Post in this thread if you live in the Pacific Northwest.

1SarahNibs17y

I live in Redmond, WA.

0ameriver15y

I'm in central Oregon

1Chase_Johnson17y

Post in this thread if you live within driving distance of Dallas, TX.

1SilasBarta16y

Waco, TX. (Prompt reply, I know...)

1Simulacra17y

Sugar Land (Houston area), not exactly day trip material but with sufficient notice I could make something.

0Chase_Johnson17y

We do seem to be thin on the ground in Texas.

1MrHen17y

I'm currently in Tyler, TX.

1Chase_Johnson17y

I live in Richardson.

0clay16y

I just caught this when I saw Silas post in the sidebar. I don't know if you're still around LW, but I live in Richardson as well, although I plan to move to the Bay Area soon.

0pdf23ds17y

I live in Mount Pleasant, TX.

1Rune17y

Waterloo, Ontario.

1BrandonReinhart17y

Seattle, WA

1Aurini17y

Calgary, Alberta.

1Cyan17y

Ottawa, Canada.

1MichaelGR17y

I'm moving to Ottawa on May 1st. How many people do we need to have quorum?

5Cyan17y

One representative from each of the twelve colonies.

3MichaelGR17y

Can I be Caprica?

2Cyan17y

Certainly! And I shall be the Vogon representative.

1LongInTheTooth17y

Ottawa, Canada

1badger17y

Phoenix, Arizona

1AndySimpson17y

Wohoo! Glendale.

1janos17y

I'm mostly a lurker, but I'm in Toronto.

1MichaelGR17y

Canada, Ottawa.

1jimrandomh17y

Post in this thread if you live in New England

1imaxwell17y

I attend the University of New Hampshire in Durham, NH, and live on campus. I am in Massachusetts about every other weekend on average, and I considered posting this in "Massachusetts." I could easily make a MA meetup.

1jimrandomh17y

Post in this thread if you live in Massachusetts

3Alicorn17y

I live in Amherst, MA. Should we also be posting how mobile we are? I rely on the bus system and the goodwill of my roommate to get around. I couldn't attend an event in, say, Boston unless there was carpooling.

1adb17y

Medford, MA. Enjoyed the OB meetup on the MIT campus, which was convenient since I work across the street. I'd be up to renting a car and driving to Amherst or New Hampshire for a meetup on a weekend, especially if there was time for hiking.

1grobstein17y

Cambridge, MA. Rarely venture beyond Boston metro area. However, I'll in the Pioneer Valley on Apr. 17-19, if anyone is interested in a meetup that Sunday (19th), say NoHo or Amherst.

1Alicorn17y

The bus is less friendly on weekends, but I could get as far as Amherst Center (and back) without spending unduly long waiting for multiple buses.

1James_Miller17y

I live in South Deerfield, MA and work in Northampton Contact me at EconomicProf@Yahoo.com

1jimrandomh17y

I live in Bedford, MA

0Nick_Roy15y

I live in Plymouth, MA during the summer, and am able to get to Boston.

0[anonymous]14y

.

0thomblake17y

New Haven, CT. I go to Boston and NYC sometimes so a meetup either place might be possible. Or here as the in-between spot.

1MBlume17y

Post in this thread if you live in California

1[anonymous]16y

I live in Davis.

1dfranke17y

Post in this thread if you live in the Bay Area.

2Eliezer Yudkowsky17y

I live in Redwood City, at least for now.

1John_Maxwell17y

I live in Santa Clara, but I don't have a car, so...

1rhollerith17y

I live in Marin County.

1orthonormal17y

I live in Berkeley.

1dfranke17y

I live in San Francisco.

0ianshakil16y

I'm in Palo Alto

0DanMeyer16y

Palo Alto (it might technically be EPA)

0ata16y

I live in Berkeley.

0zntneo15y

I live in seaside,ca.

0MBlume15y

Hey there. I think our current closest regular meetup is at Tortuga in Mountain View, which is to say -- miles away from you. If you're inclined to try hosting your own meetup, I strongly suspect you'd at least hear from some UCSC folk.

0MBlume17y

Post in this thread if you live in Southern California

1MBlume17y

I've started a meetup group for LessWrongers in Southern California

1haig17y

I'm in pasadena

0outlawpoet17y

Playa del Rey, by the beach just south of Santa Monica and West of LA proper.

0JGWeissman17y

Post in this thread if you live in Orange County

1Yasser_Elassal17y

I live in San Clemente, but I'd be willing to drive anywhere in Orange County for an occasional meetup.

1ianshakil17y

Irvine, CA here EDIT: I now live in Palo Alto

1Matt_Simpson17y

I'll be at Chapman University in Orange for 6 weeks this summer. I imagine The city of Orange is in Orange County, but correct me if I'm wrong.

1MBlume17y

yes indeed it is =) it's about half an hour north of lake forrest, if memory serves. Which six weeks? That might be a good time to shoot for a so-cal meetup

1Matt_Simpson17y

June 29 to August 7

0JGWeissman17y

I live in Lake Forest

1MBlume17y

I could catch a train down to OC pretty easily.

0MBlume17y

Post in this thread if you live in Santa Barbara County

1HalFinney17y

I live between Goleta and Santa Barbara. I am 54.

1MBlume17y

also, just created a Less Wrong in SB group on Facebook

1MBlume17y

Awesome, if you and jimmy are up for it, maybe we could all get some dinner in the next week some time

1jimmy17y

I'm in Isla Vista

1MBlume17y

I'm having some trouble responding to your PM, so: I'm working for prof Richman, though more "trying to get up to speed" than "working" right at the moment. I just had Nelson for my particle class the last two quarters -- it was a lot of fun. So I was thinking if Hal was up for it the three of us could grab some dinner in the next week or so -- that work for you? Also: LW SB group

1jimmy17y

Sounds good to me.

1MBlume17y

Awesome, I'm Mike, I'm a physics grad at UCSB

1MBlume17y

I attend University of California, Santa Barbara, and live on campus.

0kithpendragon14y

Harrisburg, PA

0windmil14y

Florida, the central part.

0r_claypool15y

Nashville, Tennessee

0JackEmpty15y

New Brunswick, Canada.

0hewhocutsdown15y

Minneapolis, Minnesota

0jwhendy15y

St. Paul, Minnesota -- I see there was a meetup in 2009 but could't find anything else... how many Minnesotans are there? Can we get together?

0NancyLebovitz16y

Post in this thread if you're in the Philadelphia area.

0Document16y

Within 28 miles or 40 minutes of Philadelphia according to Mapquest, which sounds basically accurate to me.

0NancyLebovitz16y

I'm in Philadelphia.

0wnoise16y

Albuquerque, New Mexico.

0Pavitra17y

Fairfield, Iowa.

0TobyBartels16y

I dub Pavitra's post the beginning of the Great Plains thread. Lincoln NE

0Nick_Tarleton17y

Pittsburgh, PA

0Document15y

About 280 miles or 5 hours from Pittsburgh according to Mapquest.

0mattnewport17y

Vancouver, Canada.

0SoullessAutomaton17y

Post in this thread if you live in the midwestern USA or nearby areas of Canada, ideally roughly within a day's drive of Chicago. EDIT: For anyone in this area, Penguicon may be a good location for a meetup. It's a mixed sci-fi/open-source/general-geekery convention in the Detroit area, and just might possibly have at least one guest that LW readers would be interested to meet. I probably won't be there this year, though.

2Sniffnoy15y

I'm in Ann Arbor.

2HA217y

Champaign, IL

2Technologos17y

South Side of Chicago

0Mike Bishop17y

Me too. U of C affiliated?

1Technologos17y

Yep! I'll get in touch.

1NicSmith17y

"Me too." I'm in Chicago.

0Nic_Smith16y

Just updating that I've changed to Nic_Smith.

1Dustin17y

Near St. Louis.

1aleph17y

Bloomington IN, Chicago area native, so I'm back that way fairly often anyway.

1venusatuluri17y

Columbus, Ohio

1Matt_Simpson17y

Near St. Louis, MO or Ames, IA, depending on the time of year.

1Psy-Kosh17y

I'm Detroit...ish area, and actually I am planning to go to Penguicon this year

1arundelo17y

Detroit, MI.

1hhadzimu17y

Chicago, IL.

0Insert_Idionym_Here14y

I used to live in Ann Arbor, rather recently. I live in Saginaw now.

0Perplexed15y

Cleveland OH

0TobyBartels16y

Lincoln NE I can reach Chicago in a day, but Detroit is too far.

0Unnamed16y

Chicago area.

0LeBleu17y

Algoma, WI (about 4 hours north of Chicago)

0NQbass717y

I'm in Peoria, IL. In Chicago pretty often though.

-1[anonymous]17y

Mobile, Al

[-]DragonGod9y20

I'm from Nigeria.

0oge9y

Where in Nigeria?

0DragonGod9y

I live in Lagos, but I'm currently at my University; it's in Ogun state. You're (presumably) Nigerian as well (Yoruba from your name)?

0oge9y

Haha, I live in Lagos too. One day we'll have a proper meetup :)

0DragonGod9y

Okay. :)

[-]steven046116y20

Would it be a good idea to bump this to the front page every now and then?

2Douglas_Knight16y

Maybe a link to it in the text of the monthly open thread?

2Vladimir_Nesov16y

And to the Welcome thread.

[-][anonymous]17y10

Seattle, WA

[-]rwallace17y10

Dublin, Ireland.

0Laoch15y

Limerick, Ireland.

[-][anonymous]17y10

Shanghai, China

[-][anonymous]17y10

Orange County, CA here

[-]PhilGoetz17y10

Why are people voting the comments on this post up and down? 7 completely neutral comments expressing where people live have been voted down to zero. That's crazy.

3MBlume17y

cipher and I removed the upvotes from our own comments since we were making lots of comments to give structure to the thread, and did not feel it was fair for us to earn karma from them.

1Eliezer Yudkowsky17y

Don't worry about it, we'll get rid of karma for self-upvotes later.

4komponisto17y

So (in other words) you want to require actual upvotes (from others) to earn karma, rather than merely avoiding downvotes. Are you sure this is a good idea? Why shouldn't one's own vote count?

8Emile17y

Because right now user karma correlates more strongly with post count than with post quality. You get what you measure, so that needs to be fixed.

2komponisto17y

But why shouldn't it correlate with post count? That way the incentive structure encourages active participation; under the system Eliezer prefers, people might be tempted to hold back. Is this there a need to correct things in this direction? Are we getting too many low-quality posts and comments? (I also think that the automatic self-upvote makes sense on the grounds that making a comment should itself be considered a statement about what sort of comments the user would like to see more of. If not, the user can always undo the upvote.)

4Emile17y

Since comments tend to get upvoted more often than downvoted, why would people hold back? A comment's 'expected karma' would still be positive :) We can still add an extra "post count" to a user's profile if anybody needs to know that. And no, I don't think that this site is glutted with low-quality comments, but it's young and I already can't keep track of all that's being said, so a gentle nudge in the "quality over quantity" direction would be a Good Thing.

4SoullessAutomaton17y

That depends on whether or not total karma is supposed to indicate anything meaningful. As is, it will mostly indicate how early a member joined and how active they've been.

1Paul Crowley17y

Unless you're confident that later will be soon, it still seems to make sense to work around the system for now. BTW, MBlume, nice bit of mind reading, I was impressed by that!

0MBlume17y

lol, thanks =)

0steven046117y

I downvoted a few comments on the same principle yesterday, but I see those have been repaired. Hope people didn't take it as disapproval.

4Eliezer Yudkowsky17y

Okay seriously, don't worry about this, it'll get fixed eventually and then we don't want to have to run back and change everything back around. A few points of temporary karma are not important.

[-][anonymous]17y10

This post is a good idea, but wouldn't it be easier for everyone to join the less wrong facebook group? I'm not positive, but I think the geographical sorting can then be easily viewed automatically. You could then invite the subgroups to their group, and post meetings etc. that way. There may be better methods than this I don't know about.

[-]Vladimir_Nesov17y10

Anyone from Russia? I live in Moscow.

1Vladimir_Golovin17y

Rostov-na-Donu here :) I know a couple of guys here in Rostov (was quite surprised to discover them!) who are interested in That Which Cannot Be Named Yet. They could definitely learn a lot from reading LW and the OB corpus, but unfortunately their English isn't good enough. (BTW, I didn't think you were from Moscow, thought you're an immigrant -- your English is way too good for a regular Russian.)

1cousin_it17y

Me too.

0BT_Uytya14y

I'm from Bashkortostan, but now I live in Dolgoprudny, Moscow Oblast because, you know, I'm a student and my university is located there.

0khafra17y

I live in St. Petersburg. Unfortunately, that's Florida, not Russia. Which is a shame, because I'm always impressed by your comments, and usually learn something. спасибо.

[-]Paul Crowley17y10

Post in this thread if you live outside Europe, the US, or Canada.

2y0math14y

Mumbai, India

2insaneabd17y

Lahore, Pakistan

2[anonymous]17y

Any other African expats? Rwanda? In fact, I'll see your small central African nation and raise you a Burundi, Uganda, or Eastern Congo if it's not buried in lava by next week.

2[anonymous]17y

Shanghai, China

1michaelkeenan17y

Taipei, Taiwan.

1blogospheroid17y

Bangalore, India, honest confession, a lurker more than a commentor. I feel i don't know enough.

0thungas17y

hey.. am from Bangalore.. on/off lurker.. had an acct for long.. but this is my first comment.. -Srikanth Thunga

1Vladimir_Gritsenko17y

I can't be the only guy to generate the 410 hits from Israel... if I am, that is very sad.

0DanArmak17y

I'm from Israel. Currently live in Jerusalem studying at HUJI.

0dyokomizo16y

Sao Paulo, Brazil

0Gust14y

Same! Are you still around?

0dyokomizo14y

Around São Paulo, yes. Around LW, not much anymore, I mostly read it via feed reader.

0AndrewH17y

Auckland, New Zealand

0james_edwards16y

Me too!

0free_rip16y

Chch, NZ.

0somervta14y

Ditto!

[-][anonymous]16y00

Brisbane, Australia

[-]flawed_skull17y00

New Jersey! Arent there enough OB/LWers to make a greater new york area meetup once in 2 months possible?

0olimay17y

Princeton area. I'm good to meet up in NYC too.

[-][anonymous]17y00

Tokyo, Japan.

Los Angeles, Ca

1MBlume17y

hey, just so you know, there's some other southern californians hanging out down-thread

[-]michaelhoney17y00

Canberra, Australia.

0JamesCole16y

Brisbane, Australia

0Ramana Kumar16y

Canberra, Australia, too.

0Virge17y

Melbourne, Australia

0TomM15y

Melbourne as well...

0Ppeach16y

Yep.

0matt16y

Another.

0Patrick16y

Same here.

0luminosity16y

Me too.

0wedrifid17y

Another.

0patrickmclaren16y

One more!

0MattFisher17y

Sydney, Australia But I could make it to Canberra ;)

0zemaj16y

+1!

0janm16y

Sydney, Australia too.

0erratio16y

Sydney here too

[-][anonymous]17y00

I'd love to meet any of you near Atlanta, GA!

2chronophasiac17y

Yup, me too.

[-]John_Maxwell17y-10

Post in this thread if you're female. (I'm not; just wondering.)

0Alicorn17y

I'm female. Why is this a matter of interest?

1John_Maxwell17y

I'm curious about who reads the site, I guess.

0byrnema17y

It would be neat to know the distribution. (I'm F.)

0free_rip16y

I doubt we'll get an idea of distribution from this thread, but I'm female.

3byrnema16y

Thanks, I'm glad to know that. Since I made that comment, there's been a survey and they found that about 3% of us are female. Maybe it's as high as 10% or 20% with error and lurkers, but we're still a minority. Have you been following Less Wrong for a while, or have you recently come across it?

2free_rip15y

I'm new, as evidenced by the fact that until now I did not realize I had a handy inbox that told me about replies. (Yes, that was an apology for taking so long to respond. cough Sorry.) Haven't been on much since I joined (few months past) what with exams, but hoping to become a little less of a lurker now that they're finished and I've read through a fair bit of the sequences and whatnot. I kind of wish there were sequences on math and science and other such things on this site - I can get most of the concepts, but I'm still in high school and the maths goes over my head sometimes.

2shokwave15y

People have recommended betterexplained and khan academy for math mostly and some science.

3free_rip15y

Thank you! Betterexplained is alright, but Khan Academy is amazing - easy, simple, great layout, progress tracking, instructional videos, challenges. I'm working my way through the logarithms track at the moment. (Yes, I am that far behind all of you.)

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