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Meetup : St. Petersburg Weekly / Biweekly Meetup
Discussion article for the meetup : St. Petersburg Weekly / Biweekly Meetup
We meet every week or every other week. Actual date, time and location are announced on VK and Meetup.com. Applied rationality workshop: vk event. Regular meetings: vk community, vk event. Meetup.com page.
Discussion article for the meetup : St. Petersburg Weekly / Biweekly Meetup
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The map of organizations, sites and people involved in x-risks prevention
Three known attempts to make a map of x-risks prevention in the field of science exist:
1. First is the list from the Global Catastrophic Risks Institute in 2012-2013, and many links there are already not working:
2. The second was done by S. Armstrong in 2014
3. And the most beautiful and useful map was created by Andrew Critch. But its ecosystem ignores organizations which have a different view of the nature of global risks (that is, they share the value of x-risks prevention, but have another world view).
In my map I have tried to add all currently active organizations which share the value of global risks prevention.
It also regards some active independent people as organizations, if they have an important blog or field of research, but not all people are mentioned in the map. If you think that you (or someone) should be in it, please write to me at alexei.turchin@gmail.com
I used only open sources and public statements to learn about people and organizations, so I can’t provide information on the underlying net of relations.
I tried to give all organizations a short description based on its public statement and also my opinion about its activity.
In general it seems that all small organizations are focused on their collaboration with larger ones, that is MIRI and FHI, and small organizations tend to ignore each other; this is easily explainable from the social singnaling theory. Another explanation is that larger organizations have a great ability to make contacts.
It also appears that there are several organizations with similar goal statements.
It looks like the most cooperation exists in the field of AI safety, but most of the structure of this cooperation is not visible to the external viewer, in contrast to Wikipedia, where contributions of all individuals are visible.
It seems that the community in general lacks three things: a united internet forum for public discussion, an x-risks wikipedia and an x-risks related scientific journal.
Ideally, a forum should be used to brainstorm ideas, a scientific journal to publish the best ideas, peer review them and present them to the outer scientific community, and a wiki to collect results.
Currently it seems more like each organization is interested in creating its own research and hoping that someone will read it. Each small organization seems to want to be the only one to present the solutions to global problems and gain full attention from the UN and governments. It raises the problem of noise and rivalry; and also raises the problem of possible incompatible solutions, especially in AI safety.
The pdf is here: http://immortality-roadmap.com/riskorg5.pdf
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
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
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