This Sunday, at our usual place and time, we will perform the next meetup. Our plan:

• A talk about relations with bad habits.
• A talk about validity in psychology.
• A talk about Stanovich.
• The Prisoner's dilemma tournament.
• The Colonel Blotto game tournament.

Details are in the hackpad: https://lesswrong-ru.hackpad.com/-12-2015-hF3L1bJI6DU

Info for newcomers: We gather in the Yandex office, first revolving door is on the right from the archway, entrance 8.1. Here is a guide how to get to Yandex: http://company.yandex.ru/contacts/redrose/. If you're late, send SMS to Slava at +7(926)313-96-42; you'll have to wait until he is free to go down and meet you (which might take a while). Expected duration of the meetup is 4-5 hours.

If you're not the member of our Moscow community yet, you might want to check out https://lesswrong-ru.hackpad.com/ , there's a lot of content about what's been going on for the last two years.

Also, please subscribe to our mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/rationality-in-moscow

Welcome to the next open lecture centre meetup!

Our plan:

1. "Investigation of a belief" excercise ( https://lesswrong-ru.hackpad.com/--cmNMJhG0OIx ).

2. Fallacymania game ( https://lesswrong-ru.hackpad.com/Fallacymania--neGfMe9MFjH ).

Meetup schedule is in hackpad: https://lw-msk-lect.hackpad.com/-22--12nnyRVeCwz

Come to Strelbishensky per., 10, ap.60. 3rd porch, door code 60B3112, 5th floor. Nearest metro station is Vystavochnaya. If you are lost, call Sasha at 8-905-527-30-82. Meetup begins at 14:00, the length is 2 hours.

This Sunday, at our usual place and time, we have the following talks planned:

• Human perception of time, and it's worsening on big scales.
• Communication frameworks.
• About the harmfulness of stories.
• About fallacies and logic.

Details are in the hackpad: https://lesswrong-ru.hackpad.com/-15-2015-szpkpxu4w0M

Info for newcomers: We gather in the Yandex office, first revolving door is on the right from the archway, entrance 8.1. Here is a guide how to get to Yandex: http://company.yandex.ru/contacts/redrose/. If you're late, send SMS to Slava at +7(926)313-96-42; you'll have to wait until he is free to go down and meet you (which might take a while). Expected duration of the meetup is 4-5 hours.

If you're not the member of our Moscow community yet, you might want to check out https://lesswrong-ru.hackpad.com/ , there's a lot of content about what's been going on for the last two years.

Also, please subscribe to our mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/rationality-in-moscow

Welcome to the first meetup of Moscow LW lecture centre (don't mix up with LW club, which meets in Yandex). It will be in antikafe "PVK Kopernik" ( http://clubkopernik.ru/ ). Nearest metro is Shabolovskaya, then 15 minutes walking. Meetup begins at 14:00, the length is 2-4 hours.

Our plan:

1. Talk "Applicability of linear and parametric approach in science and thinking".
2. Talk "Deliberate practice: how are skills being improved".
3. Fallacymania game, details about this game are here: https://lesswrong-ru.hackpad.com/Fallacymania--neGfMe9MFjH

Details about meetup: https://lw-msk-lect.hackpad.com/-25--34L96i0tS5J

Welcome to the experimental Social Chaotic meetup! It will be experimental on 2 ways:

1. It will be open: I will announce the meetup to all places where open meetups are usually announced by Moscow LW community.
2. There will be elements of Chaos, such as "secret quests" and "papers with wishes". Read further for details.

Main themes of meetup are party games and table games.

I have a collection of party and table games, and also you can bring your games with you. We will decide what games to play by participants' wishes.

Also there will be Training game / Team training game: funny game and one of symbols of the Order of Chaos.

Also there will be "rational games": Fallacymania, Zendo, "Quick estimation".

"Secret quests" is very chaotic game. Players take papers with secret quests in the beginning of meetup, and they don't show their quests to others. The goal is to complete your quest. Examples of quests and a form for your ideas for quests are here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/19gReYSTytJIu7a7gmUzN4Vvhb91VJ0nUm7hL974QqiU/viewform

"Papers with wishes": there will be a vase where you will be able to put a paper with a wish what you want from others to do with you. You will need to write your name on your paper. All participants can take others' papers in any time. Then they read the paper, and if there is something adequate and feasible, they do it :-)

Address of meetup:

Strelbishensky per., 10, ap.60, 3rd entrance, code 60B3112, 5th floor. Nearest metro station: Vystavochnaya. If you have questions, call me 8-905-527-30-82 or write me on e-mail alexander230r@gmail.com (it's better to call if you're searching a way before the meetup).

This meetup will be in semi-closed format! If you hadn't come to our meetups before, please wait for the next open meetup: it's planned to December, 21.

Regular visitors of our meetups, please wait for announce in our group:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/rationality-in-moscow

You will feel more comfortable in our meetups if you read the needed materials and became familiar with some base ideas:

• You understand the Bayes theorem (what is bayesianism - http://lesswrong.com/lw/1to/what_is_bayesianism or http://schegl2g.bget.ru/bayes/YudkowskyBayes.html ).

• You understand what is "System 1" and "System 2" (Kahneman and Yudkowsky).

• You know what is "rational agent".

• You've read the base sequences: "Map and Territory" - http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Map_and_Territory_(sequence) and "Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions" - http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Mysterious_Answers_to_Mysterious_Questions .

It will allow you to understand better, what we talk about, how do we think, and will give you the spirit of our activities.

This meetup will be in semi-closed format! If you hadn't come to our meetups before, please wait for next open meetup!

Here's our plan:

• Time and space, and why are they don't exist.
• About everyday calibration experience.
• When don't you need psychology, or the most efficient ways to get hurt on psychology.

Details and schedule:

https://lesswrong-ru.hackpad.com/-23--xGdpSHSnXdn

Also there will be yudcoins and positive reinforcement, as usual. We will publish more detailed information about time and place in our Google group not long before the meeting:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/rationality-in-moscow

You will feel more comfortable in our meetup if you read the Core sequences:

http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences#Core_Sequences

or in Russian:

http://lesswrong.ru/

If you are not interested to read that, you will be probably not interested in our talk contents.

If you want to make a talk on our meetup, please write your offer to our Hackpad:

https://lesswrong-ru.hackpad.com/--8bwR9y6GbfN

We will examine and consider it.

Here's our plan:

• Calibration excercise announce.
• Temporal symmetry in quantum theory and/or philosophical problems of the modern quantum physics.
• Structuring excercise in pairs/microgroups.
• A talk about Chomsky and/or Pinker.

Details and schedule:

https://lesswrong-ru.hackpad.com/-26--ljrbZz2bAxa

Yudcoins, positive reinforcement and pizza will all be present. If you've been to our meetups, you know what I'm talking about, and if you didn't, the best way to find out is to come and see for yourself.

Info for newcomers: We gather in the Yandex office, you need the first revolving door under the archway. Here is a guide how to get there:

http://company.yandex.ru/contacts/redrose/

Try to come in time, we will allow latecomers to enter every 15 minutes. Call Slava or send him SMS at +7(926)313-96-42 if you're late. We start at 14:00 and stay until at least 19-20. Please pay attention that we only gather near the entrance and then come inside.