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Oslo, Norway
Meetup : Oslo Meetup at Bitraf.
Discussion article for the meetup : Oslo Meetup at Bitraf.
Welcome to the second Oslo meetup, at one of the most prominent hackerspaces in town. We will be discussing a number of topics including:
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Rational fiction
Effective Altruism
Present and Near Future transhumanism
X-risk
Social engineering
I look forward to seeing people from the last meetup, and those of you who couldn't make it last time.
Discussion article for the meetup : Oslo Meetup at Bitraf.
Certainly this seems like a (meta-)low-hanging fruit.
There seem to be fairly effective interest / aptitude tests, that I remember taking in middle school. The level of detail is insufficient to identify low-hanging fruits ("you should go work in this particular research group") but is still narrow enough to be useful ("these are the jobs that the 0.1% of the population most like you finds most satisfying"). This can raise to attention jobs or fields that are high impact or high paying that someone might not be consciously aware of, or realize that it suits them well. (The canonical example here is MRI sales; someone has to sell them, but a person with strong ability to remember facts and figures and understand technical things, and also to deal with people, may not have that come to mind as an intersection of their interests and aptitudes.)
Are any of these open/free to take, because I have use for such a test.
I don't know if it's low-hanging. In my experience finding what you are REALLY interested in involves a lot of trial and error, while aptitude tests are worthless beyond the pretty obvious division into techies and humanities people.
I am of the opinion that much better tests can exist, not sure if they do, which can divide people into further categories.
Which resources would you recommend for enhancing discipline?
(You have recommended a few things in particular to me before, but I'm writing this to see what other recommendations you would have, and for others' benefit.)
Meetup : Oslo Meetup at Bitraf.
Discussion article for the meetup : Oslo Meetup at Bitraf.
Welcome to the second Lesswrong meetup, this time at a hackerspace.
The entrance is a bit quirky: a big green double door With "NILZ" in yellow writing over it, just ring the doorbell marked "bitraf" and say anything.
As with last meetup there will be several topics up for discussion, but I won't list them here.
I hope some of those who couldn't make it last week will turn up then :)
Discussion article for the meetup : Oslo Meetup at Bitraf.
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Thank you for organizing this. Oslo is my hometown, and I will definitely be there if it coincides with a trip home. I'll find you on freenode later and send you some information about possible attendees from a previous attempt at organizing an Oslo meetup
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Thanks to everyone who turned up, and for those who couldn't make it, I look forward to seeing you next time, I certainly had a fun time, and I believe i was not alone :)
Here is the google group (mailing list) for LessWrong Oslo.
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GMT+1? Isn't it a GMT (ahem, UTC) +2 in Norway now?
My apologies, you are correct, I'll simplify my posts in the future in order to avoid potential confusion.
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Well, there went another evening filled with interesting discussion, though there were fewer attendees than I anticipated, those of us who did attend covered the aforementioned topics and more.
There was also some very above average pizza.
Anyhow I look forward to future meetups, though none are currently planned, I'll see about getting the next one posted at least six weeks in advance.
Anyone interested in participating in the organization of future meetups, or maybe just dropping a comment is welcome to join the mailing list.