Reaching The Stars Is Easy... .

Thanks for the (potentially) very useful post. Upvoted with pleasure, as the best thing in while fitting the criterion: "I'd like to see more posts like this on LessWrong."

Vivo ahora en California, pero mi esposa y yo nos mudamos a España en Augusto (todavía no hemos decidido cual ciudad). Viviremos allí por un año.

I'll be coming. Thanks for putting this together again, Jennifer.

I suggest two topics:

• The recent inspiring post by Cosmos on a successful rationalist community
• some kind of structured conversation or exercise

Please RSVP for yourself and any guests by responding this this comment.

A very thought-provoking and well-written article. Thanks!

Your biggest conceptual jump seems to be reasoning about the subjective experience of hyperintelligences by analogy to human experiences. That is, and experience of some thought/communication speed ratio for a hyperintelligence would be "like" a human experience of that same ratio. But hyperintelligences aren't just faster. I think they'd probably be very very different qualitatively. Who knows if the costs / benefits of time-consuming communication will be perceived in similar or even recognizable ways?

I won't be coming to this one; it's too far for me. I'll see y'all when we gather again in Orange County.

I'm calling it then. I made a reservation for 8 to 25 people at the IHOP starting at 3:30PM. We get the upstairs again!

Would you be able to attend at other locations if a ride were available?

This comment is intended as a parent post for talking about possible locations. For reference:

• We have met at Westwood Brewing Company a few block south of UCLA.

• We have met at Platt Campus Center on campus at Harvey Mudd.

• We have met at an IHOP about a mile from UC Irvine.

• I think the center of mass of people who are likely to attend (excluding people from San Diego) is somewhere around Anaheim.

Suggests and comments from people who know the los angeles metropolitan region better than I do (or whose attendance is conditional on the location being closer than X to them, for a small value of X) are appreciated!