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Meetup : San Francisco Meetup: Projects
Discussion article for the meetup : San Francisco Meetup: Projects
We’ll be meeting to work on projects!
Near the beginning, we’ll go around and talk about what we’ll be working on, then do a couple of pomodoros quietly. At some point we’ll break into general conversations and socializing.
For help getting into the building, please call (or text, with a likely-somewhat-slower response rate): 301-458-0764
Format:
We meet and start hanging out at 6:15, but don’t officially start doing the meetup topic until 6:45-7 to accommodate stragglers. Usually there is a food order that goes out before we start the meetup topic.
About these meetups:
The mission of the SF LessWrong meetup is to provide a fun, low-key social space with some structured interaction, where new and non-new community members can mingle and have interesting conversations. Everyone is welcome.
We explicitly encourage people to split off from the main conversation or diverge from the topic if that would be more fun for them (moving side conversations into a separate part of the space if appropriate). Meetup topics are here as a tool to facilitate fun interaction, and we certainly don’t want them to inhibit it.
Discussion article for the meetup : San Francisco Meetup: Projects
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Weekly LW Meetups
This summary was posted to LW Main on October 7th. The following week's summary is here.
Irregularly scheduled Less Wrong meetups are taking place in:
The remaining meetups take place in cities with regular scheduling, but involve a change in time or location, special meeting content, or simply a helpful reminder about the meetup:
- Baltimore Area / UMBC Weekly Meetup: 09 October 2016 08:00PM
- Bay Area Winter Solstice 2016: 17 December 2016 07:00PM
- Melbourne: A Bayesian Guide on How to Read a Scientific Paper: 08 October 2016 03:30PM
- Moscow: rational review, bias busters, Kolmogorov and Jayes probability: 09 October 2016 02:00PM
- Washington, D.C.: Games Discussion: 09 October 2016 03:30PM
Locations with regularly scheduled meetups: Austin, Berlin, Boston, Brussels, Buffalo, Canberra, Columbus, Denver, Kraków, London, Madison WI, Melbourne, Moscow, New Hampshire, New York, Philadelphia, Research Triangle NC, San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, Sydney, Tel Aviv, Toronto, Vienna, Washington DC, and West Los Angeles. There's also a 24/7 online study hall for coworking LWers and a Slack channel for daily discussion and online meetups on Sunday night US time.
Meetup : Washington, D.C.: Games Discussion
Discussion article for the meetup : Washington, D.C.: Games Discussion
We will be meeting in the courtyard to talk about games and game-related topics.
Upcoming meetups:
- Oct. 16: Fun & Games
- Oct. 23: Communication
Discussion article for the meetup : Washington, D.C.: Games Discussion
Meetup : Baltimore Area / UMBC Weekly Meetup
Discussion article for the meetup : Baltimore Area / UMBC Weekly Meetup
Meeting is on 4th floor of the Performing Arts and Humanities Building. Permit parking designations do not apply on weekends, so park pretty much wherever you want.
Discussion article for the meetup : Baltimore Area / UMBC Weekly Meetup
The University of Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) is hiring!
The University of Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) is recruiting for an Academic Project Manager. This is an opportunity to play a shaping role as CSER builds on its first year's momentum towards becoming a permanent world-class research centre. We seek an ambitious candidate with initiative and a broad intellectual range for a postdoctoral role combining academic and project management responsibilities.
The Academic Project Manager will work with CSER's Executive Director and research team to co-ordinate and develop CSER's projects and overall profile, and to develop new research directions. The post-holder will also build and maintain collaborations with academic centres, industry leaders and policy makers in the UK and worldwide, and will act as an ambassador for the Centre’s research externally. Research topics will include AI safety, bio risk, extreme environmental risk, future technological advances, and cross-cutting work on governance, philosophy and foresight. Candidates will have a PhD in a relevant subject, or have equivalent experience in a relevant setting (e.g. policy, industry, think tank, NGO).
Application deadline: November 11th. http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/11684/
Meetup : Moscow: rational review, bias busters, Kolmogorov and Jayes probability
Discussion article for the meetup : Moscow: rational review, bias busters, Kolmogorov and Jayes probability
Note: most our members join meetups via other channels. Still, the correlation between "found out about Moscow meetups via lesswrong.com" and "is a great fit for our community" is very high. So we're posting just a short link to the hackpad document with the schedule here instead of the full translation of the announcement into English.
Pad with the details about 09.10.2016 meetup.
We're meeting at the "Kocherga" anticafe, as usual.
Discussion article for the meetup : Moscow: rational review, bias busters, Kolmogorov and Jayes probability
Astrobiology III: Why Earth?
After many tribulations, my astrobiology bloggery is back up and running using Wordpress rather than Blogger because Blogger is completely unusable these days. I've taken the opportunity of the move to make better graphs for my old posts.
"The Solar System: Why Earth?"
https://thegreatatuin.wordpress.com/2016/10/03/the-solar-system-why-earth/
Here, I try to look at our own solar system and what the presence of only ONE known biosphere, here on Earth, tells us about life and perhaps more importantly what it does not. In particular, I explore what aspects of Earth make it special and I make the distinction between a big biosphere here on Earth that has utterly rebuilt the geochemistry and a smaller biosphere living off smaller amounts of energy that we probably would never notice elsewhere in our own solar system given the evidence at hand.
Commentary appreciated.
Previous works:
Space and Time, Part I
https://thegreatatuin.wordpress.com/2016/09/25/space-and-time-part-i
Space and Time, Part II
https://thegreatatuin.wordpress.com/2016/09/25/space-and-time-part-ii
Open thread, Oct. 03 - Oct. 09, 2016
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