A second meeting is happening this Saturday.
Meetup : Second Copenhagen meetup
Discussion article for the meetup : Second Copenhagen meetup
There is a desire for a second meetup in Copenhagen! This time we are meeting in Studenterhuset on Saturday at 17:00, across from the observatory that has "Less Wrong" in Latin (under an extremely liberal interpretation) in big gold letters out front. We might be meeting upstairs if the downstairs is crowded. I will supplement the free discussion by talking about what happened at the Center for Applied Rationality's minicamp earlier this month; I can show off a couple apps we used for calibration practice; and I can run interested people through mini-exercises and games on
- Rationalist's Taboo
- So-called "goal-factoring"/"fungibility"/asking yourself "why am I doing this? Is there a better way to get what I want?"
- Overcoming aversions
- Being specific
If you want to receive notifications of future meetups, sign up for our mailing list.
Discussion article for the meetup :Second Copenhagen meetup
say you had a being that valued spending its life enjoying eating broccoli. Except it turns out that it didn’t really like broccoli. [...] So it was going to be in internal emotional conflict for a long time.
If that being is anything like human, I would predict that there's a lot more to it than that, beneath the surface.
I strongly recommend talking to someone who knows more about you personally or someone who's good at talking people through their problems or just anyone in real-time. Less Wrong is great for some purposes, but it may not be what you most need right now.
What does "acting like you complimented someone" entail? Expecting them to show gratitude? Or is it something more?
In response to comment by on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 16, chapter 85
It also explains why the spell has to be kept a secret.
There is a way to edit meetup posts. I think maybe you have to access the /meetups/ version of the page?
EDIT: Yes, that's definitely how you do it. There should be a little "edit meetup" link under the map that appears there.
In response to A thought about Internet procrastination
On my first reading I thought you meant you'd help out Less Wrong users by only making interesting posts at regular intervals.
Wow. You're, like, literally the Devil.
I mean that in a nonjudgmental way.
thelittledoctor is making no small claim here, but such sequences of levers do exist and have dispelled several people's faith.
View more: Next
Subscribe to RSS Feed
That's good to hear. I myself have never experienced this particular problem.