In Vancouver, we're starting a Sequences reading group, because we're getting a bunch of new friends interested. Additionally, we have multiple CFAR alumni at our meetup, so that might lead to some interesting projects going on. I will attempt to take notes on this stuff, and I will either post it here, or generate a report about it in the future. Either way, I'm grateful for this reminder that taking notes and reporting them is something worthwhile. Thanks.
Meetup report from Sunday: you'll notice I posted a meetup for a discussion group for Politics is the Mind-Killer.
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For the last three years, the meetup has existed, but it wasn't so much of a 'rationalist community' as it was a 'philosophy and science fiction ideas discussion group'. There were about twenty people on the mailing list, but the average attendance for a meetup was 4-7, drawing from a pool of, like, 12, who ever showed up. It was mostly the same people over and over again. The highest number of people in attendance ever was at 9, probably.
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