This week on the slack: http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/mpq/lesswrong_real_time_chat/

• AI - pet peeves of dealing with people who don't understand AI
• Effective altruism - what do people think about charities spending money to fundraise. I think that if someone knew that $100 out of the $120 they donated was spent on getting the last $20 out of them, before the rest of the overhead, I think they’d quite rightly feel that that wasn’t quite what they had signed up for.
• finance - investing in local or distant markets
• goals of lesswrong - setting community standards, routines or rituals.
• human relationships - poly strategies, innovation vs conformity, long distance relationships
• lingustics - optimising information transfer is about making it easy to record information and easy to absorb information from a recorded source. Have we done that yet? Can we make technology do that easier for us?
• objectivish - don't know how it got there but, "when instincts go wrong; like when birds fly into windows"
• open - philosphical boogeyman, http://www.rationalitycardinality.com/, debating IRL: the topic of is it ethical to profit off war?, meta:slack, paying out philosophy...
• Parenting - dealing with tantrums, strategies about managing kids; treating the problem like an adult one (if an adult stood in a hallway and refused to move; eventually the police would be called to remove them)
• philosophy - moral realism, preference utilitarianism, animals as a fraction of the value of a human, Pascal's mugging...
• political talk - update: Australia has a new leader. we talked about history of Australian leadership and stuff.
• programming - people asked for guides on programming and ideas for which lanugages to use,
• real life - dealing with a death in the family. dealing with the pain of a wisdom tooth operation, discussion of work time from the poll in @adamzerner's post in the last OT.
• resources and links - its a link-dump home for useful posts. i.e. that rationalitycardinality link, a book on NLP, guides to things, some waitbutwhy links...
• rss feed - we have an RSS feed of any post on LW or SSC that notifies of posts if you are in the channel.
• Science - musk and his silly publicity about blowing up mars. (hit it with a nuke to create an atmosphere or something)
• startups - new tech startups, earlier: startup ideas
• travelling - low cost travelling.
• welcome - everyone answers the questions: "Would you like to introduce yourself? Where are you from? What do you do with your time? What are you working on?"

Feel free to join us. Active meetup time: A time to try to get lots of people online to talk about things is going to be chosen soon, probably a 12 hour window or so. (coming sooon)

Edit: we have over 100 people who have signed up. Not nearly that many people are active, but each day something interesting happens...