Review about the Rationality Meetup in Vienna on 23.08.2014

People who were there: Marko Thiel, Monika, Andreas, Matthias Brandner, Viliam Búr, Ivan, Manuel Moertelmaier, Pascal, Anna Leptikon, Marianna, Adelheid Gfrast, Jana and Austin Franzoni

We did the "open microphone" idea again and had our first meetup at Andreas' and Moni's place - thank you again for organizing it and all the food and drinks :)

Our (official) topics on Saturday were:

• "money creation" by Andreas

• "time" by Lea

• "remembering and experiencing self" (Kahnemann) by Andreas

• "money and happiness" by Matthias

We still have this open mic topics open:

absolute morality, antitheism, Esperanto, motivation hacker

We defined this topics for a full meetup in the future:

• "Superintelligence" (Marko Thiel)

• maybe Motivation Hacker? (Moni & me)

• introduction and current research about happiness (me)

I collected this feedback ideas (from me and other people) during and after the meetup:

• defining "homework" for the next meetup to have a better base for upcoming topics (like reading specific articles)

• trying more settings in one meetup so it "feels like doing more" (for example going for a walk, changing sitting positions et cetera - we had the idea because of "remembering vs experiencing self")

• before starting a specific discussion about a topic first thinking about which level of thinking is the best/most important one

• after each topic or 30 "open mic" minutes -> thinking what this new information means for myself/how I can use it