Meetup : Sydney Meetup - March

taryneast

Discussion article for the meetup : Sydney Meetup - March

WHEN: 26 March 2014 06:30:00PM (+1100)

WHERE: Sydney City RSL, 565 George St, Sydney, Australia 2000

So far so good. Our last two meetups have been great - so lets do it one more time.

6:30 PM for early discussion 7PM general dinner-discussion after dinner we'll have our rationality exercise and a more specific discussion-topic.

I'll book another table under the name "less wrong". Last meetup we were in the restaurant on level 2. When I arrive I'll facebook about where exactly the table is located.

I'd like to theme this meetup with a sub-goal of outreach.

If you've been thinking of a friend you might like to bring along - this is the night to do it.

We'll have a brief intro for any newbies to the community and maybe have our early discussion be about the community and what we think we can offer.

Afterwards, we'll havethe rationality exercise and more specific discussion-topic TBD by Eliot.

Discussion article for the meetup : Sydney Meetup - March

WHEN: 26 March 2014 06:30:00PM (+1100)

WHERE: Sydney City RSL, 565 George St, Sydney, Australia 2000

So far so good. Our last two meetups have been great - so lets do it one more time.

6:30 PM for early discussion 7PM general dinner-discussion after dinner we'll have our rationality exercise and a more specific discussion-topic.

I'll book another table under the name "less wrong". Last meetup we were in the restaurant on level 2. When I arrive I'll facebook about where exactly the table is located.

I'd like to theme this meetup with a sub-goal of outreach.

If you've been thinking of a friend you might like to bring along - this is the night to do it.

We'll have a brief intro for any newbies to the community and maybe have our early discussion be about the community and what we think we can offer.

Afterwards, we'll havethe rationality exercise and more specific discussion-topic TBD by Eliot.

Discussion article for the meetup : Sydney Meetup - March

I suppose it depends on the value provided by the group you are trying to grow. I'm not qualified to speak to the objective value of LW. It's cool. It's taught me some cool stuff about biases and rationality.

I only noticed—and then commented—that the language used was similar to the way we used to talk in church.

"Outreach", "bring a friend on a night like this", "appropriate for non-believers", "seeker-sensitive" (that one means they will use less church-y dialect and talk about fewer docrinal oddities so you can brong your "unsaved" friends... it is less church-y and doctrinally odd to call them "seekers".)

I likely just have a strong aversion signal that goes off when I see such language. It instantly strikes me as weird and activist-y... a desperate attempt to spread a particular "gospel".

It instantly strikes me as weird and activist-y... a desperate attempt to spread a particular "gospel".

Leaving out the words "weird" and "desperate", that is exactly what it is. That is what LessWrong was founded for. That is what every blog in the sidebar is doing. That is the entire purpose of CFAR.

What is wrong with communicating ideas worth spreading?

1taryneast12y

Yes, I purloined the "outreach" term from churchy language. :) [...] Perhaps a desperate attempt to spread rationality? ;) or just a wish to have more rational friends to talk to.