Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is coming to an end! Join us as we celebrate!

Feel free to wear costumes - in fact it is encouraged!

We will have snacks, games, and discussion. Bring any food or entertainment you would like.

If you have any questions, please contact the organizer, Adele or post a comment here.

All are welcome to attend! We'd love to see you there! Feel free to drop in later or leave early at your convenience.

From 285 - get off at Exit 38 for Lawrenceviile Hwy. Head east towards the city down Lawrenceville Hwy. The location is right after the light at Harcourt Drive at Norgate Manor on the right.

There will be cats present at the location. Please park in spots marked 'Visitor' - there are plenty at the front of the complex.

This meetup we'll be talking about social skills and making and maintaining healthy relationships. If you'd like, take a look at these posts in advance: http://lesswrong.com/lw/818/how_to_understand_people_better/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/5p6/how_and_why_to_granularize/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/63i/rational_romantic_relationships_part_1/

Please park in a spot labeled visitor, because parking in a numbered spot can get your car towed. There are cats at the location.

As usual, there will be snacks, games, and good conversation. Hope to see you there!

Come join us for a get together! We'll be playing games and having a low key social gathering. Feel free to bring your favorite games and any snacks you would like.

Please park in a spot marked visitor. Parking in a numbered spot can get you towed. There are cats at the location.

Hope to see you!

We'll go over the new research guide http://intelligence.org/research-guide/ which discusses which mathematical knowledge is necessary for doing FAI research, and goes over the major lines of research done at MIRI.

We will also look at a new line of research called corrigibility. From the research guide: "As artificially intelligent systems grow in intelligence and capability, some of their available options may allow them to resist intervention by their programmers. We call an AI system “corrigible” if it cooperates with what its creators regard as a corrective intervention, despite default incentives for rational agents to resist attempts to shut them down or modify their preferences."

There will also be snacks and cats! Hope to see you there!

It's easy to care about "The Truth." In fact, very many people do, despite disagreeing drastically on what exactly "The Truth" is. That's why it is important to not only care about truth, but algorithms which can reliably increase the correspondence between the map and the territory.

Recommended reading: <http://lesswrong.com/lw/eta/rationality_appreciating_cognitive_algorithms/>

We will have snacks and games!

Note: please park in spots marked 'Visitor'. There are plenty by the beginning of the complex. Also there will be cats present.

Hope to see you there!

This meetup we'll be talking about having productive arguments. We'll be discussing a variety of ways to get the most out of a debate so come ready for good discussion and interesting conversation.

There will be snacks and games.

Please park in a spot marked visitor because parking elsewhere runs the risk of being towed. There are cats at the location.

Hope to see you there!

This meetup we'll be discussing self awareness and reflection. We'll be talking about ideas discussed in the Living Luminously sequence. As usual, there will be snacks and games as well as plenty of interesting conversation! There are cats at the location. Please park in a spot labeled visitor, as parking in the other spots runs the risk of getting towed. Hope to see you then!

Oge says:

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It’s another video night! Bret Victor is a Web designer who believes that thinkers and creators should have instant feedback when using their tools i.e. computers. http://worrydream.com/ Let’s watch a video of his titled, “Media for Thinking the Unthinkable” then have a discussion to share the different representations we use for comprehending the ineffable in our daily lives.

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We'll be talking about Updateless Decision Theory: http://lesswrong.com/lw/15m/towards_a_new_decision_theory/

Last time, we looked at the results from the Robust Cooperation - and this time we will see how this fits in the framework of UDT. This will give us a direction for generalizing those results.

This meetup, we'll be talking about recognizing confusion, doublethink, and how to filter good and true ideas from false and bad ones.

Please read Doublethink (Choosing to be Biased): http://lesswrong.com/lw/je/doublethink_choosing_to_be_biased/

as well as Absence of Evidence is Evidence of Absence: http://lesswrong.com/lw/ih/absence_of_evidence_is_evidence_of_absence/

There will be snacks as usual and there are cats at the location. Hope to see you then!