Where are we?
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 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.
Would it be a good idea to bump this to the front page every now and then?
Maybe a link to it in the text of the monthly open thread?
And to the Welcome thread.
The Less Wrong visit map:
And some more detail:
(edit: credit to Google Analytics for all of the heavy lifting in this comment)
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.)
This map would be best of all if it were an LW cartogram!
Is there an updated version of this? I don't have the know-how to do it myself.
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.
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).
Dublin, Ireland.
Limerick, Ireland.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Post in this thread if you live in Europe.
Post here if you live in Sweden.
Härnösand, Sweden.
Uppsala, Sweden.
Umeå, Sweden.
Same here! Are you still around?
Stockholm, Sweden.
Gothenburg, Sweden.
People of Belgium, unite behind me ... if any.
I'm from Belgium
Copenhagen (city, not snuff).
Copenhagen.
Germany, NRW, Gütersloh
Rostock, Germany.
Cologne, Germany
Xixidu, are you interested in a mini-lw-meetup in nrw?
Berlin, Germany
Munich, Germany
me too.
Stuttgart, Germany
Post in this thread if you live in France.
I live in Paris
Yvelines, next to Paris
Right next to Paris myself, Palaiseau en fait.
Greetings, from Toulouse.
I am too.
I live near Carcassonne
I'm in Paris
I live in London, UK.
Devon, UK. London meets are a bit far at the moment, but I may be moving.
I'm in London, and till we organize something I recommend the UKTA/ExtroBritannia meets.
I'm in Slough - work in London. This thread is a couple years old, though, any current activity?
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 :)
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.
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.
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.
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.
I'd go for a weekday evening in a pub in town to kick off...
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.
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. :)
The post you're replying to is very old, but see Calling LW Londoners - a meetup on Sunday 2011-01-02 seems likely!
Fantastic. Thanks for that :)
Reading, UK, and UKTA is excellent.
I'm in London
I'm also in Edinburgh, Scotland.
me too, University of Edinburgh
London as well.
Eastbourne, East Sussex
Edit: Also Oxford, UK in termtime.
Another Eastbourne, East Sussex.
Guildford, UK. Definitely up for any London meetups.
Post in this thread if you live in Finland.
Helsinki here.
I live in Oulu.
Oulu as well.
Tampere, but a Hungarian.
Helsinki
Norwich, UK.
Newport, South Wales (Casnewydd, De Cymru). Rarely in London, willing to travel to Bristol or Swansea.
Cambridge, UK.
Me too! (But gjm knew that).
I'm mildly surprised that so far there's only the two of us.
Slovakia, Bratislava
Riga, LV.
Anybody from Romania?
Oslo, Norway
Oslo, Norway.
Post in this thread if you live in the US or Canada.
Victoria, BC
Also Victoria, BC.
(Same person as user "Eoghanalbar", which I'm not using anymore.)
Also Victoria, BC. Home of the sasquatch and pacific tree octopus, and where the conservative party is named 'the liberals'.
Montana
Salt Lake City. Seems we're the entire mountain time delegation.
I don't think words can convey just how happy seeing this post has made me.
I am also from Salt Lake City :)
hey me too!
Great! Perhaps we could stage a meetup.
Post in this thread if you live in the Pacific Northwest.
I live in Redmond, WA.
I'm in central Oregon
Post in this thread if you live within driving distance of Dallas, TX.
Waco, TX. (Prompt reply, I know...)
Sugar Land (Houston area), not exactly day trip material but with sufficient notice I could make something.
We do seem to be thin on the ground in Texas.
I'm currently in Tyler, TX.
I live in Richardson.
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.
I live in Mount Pleasant, TX.
Waterloo, Ontario.
Seattle, WA
Calgary, Alberta.
Washington DC.
Im in ur capital advizin ur prezident.
glad I'm not the only Bayesian who loves OotS
rest assured...
In the NoVA/DC area as well.
Me too.
I'm not officially in DC, but I'm close enough to have a metro stop within walking distance of my house.
Within 160 miles or ~3 hours of DC according to Mapquest.
In between DC and Baltimore
Likewise, in the DC area.
likewise - DC
Montreal, Canada
Québec, Qc, Canada.
Me too: Montreal, Canada.
Ottawa, Canada.
I'm moving to Ottawa on May 1st.
How many people do we need to have quorum?
One representative from each of the twelve colonies.
Can I be Caprica?
Certainly! And I shall be the Vogon representative.
Ottawa, Canada
Phoenix, Arizona
Wohoo! Glendale.
I'm mostly a lurker, but I'm in Toronto.
Canada, Ottawa.
Post in this thread if you live within what you consider easy driving distance from New York City.
NYC area: Rob Zahra, AlexU, and Michael Vassar sometimes...
I live in NYC proper.
Brooklyn
ay, North Kersey for me and I am in the city 3-4 days a week
I live in central New Jersey.
Me too: Princeton.
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.
Long Island, work in NYC
Princeton, NJ. Easy train ride up. I visit NYC every other weekend.
Post in this thread if you live in New England
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.
Post in this thread if you live in Massachusetts
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.
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.
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.
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.
I live in South Deerfield, MA and work in Northampton
Contact me at EconomicProf@Yahoo.com
I live in Bedford, MA
I live in Plymouth, MA during the summer, and am able to get to Boston.
West Hartford, CT.
<tumbleweed>
Post in this thread if you live in California
I live in Davis.
Post in this thread if you live in the Bay Area.
I live in Santa Clara, but I don't have a car, so...
I live in Marin County.
I live in Redwood City, at least for now.
I live in Berkeley.
I live in San Francisco.
I'm in Palo Alto
Palo Alto (it might technically be EPA)
I live in Berkeley.
I live in seaside,ca.
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.
Harrisburg, PA
Florida, the central part.
Nashville, Tennessee
New Brunswick, Canada.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
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?
Post in this thread if you're in the Philadelphia area.
Within 28 miles or 40 minutes of Philadelphia according to Mapquest, which sounds basically accurate to me.
I'm in Philadelphia.
Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Fairfield, Iowa.
I dub Pavitra's post the beginning of the Great Plains thread.
Lincoln NE
Pittsburgh, PA
About 280 miles or 5 hours from Pittsburgh according to Mapquest.
Vancouver, Canada.
Anyone from Russia? I live in Moscow.
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.)
Me too.
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.
Post in this thread if you live outside Europe, the US, or Canada.
Mumbai, India
Taipei, Taiwan.
Bangalore, India, honest confession, a lurker more than a commentor. I feel i don't know enough.
hey.. am from Bangalore.. on/off lurker.. had an acct for long.. but this is my first comment.. -Srikanth Thunga
I can't be the only guy to generate the 410 hits from Israel... if I am, that is very sad.
I'm from Israel. Currently live in Jerusalem studying at HUJI.
Lahore, Pakistan
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.
Shanghai, China
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Same! Are you still around?
Around São Paulo, yes. Around LW, not much anymore, I mostly read it via feed reader.
Auckland, New Zealand
Me too!
Chch, NZ.
Ditto!