As suggested earlier- mind games for all!

We'll be attempting some basic social games, as inspired by http://lesswrong.com/lw/58/build_skills_in_the_right_order/ - simple stuff, like holding eye contact for absurd periods without staring down, and simple enunciation games.

Also, Rejection therapy! I personally expect everyone here to ask to join a strangers board game. Extra points for success!

You need only bring enthusiasm and preparation for awkwardness. Also the desserts here are pretty decent...

Hey all!

Just a reminder for the up-coming meet up at the Sydney RSL - level 3 at the restaurant.

Wed did not get to try nomic last time- barring a better idea, might as well give it a shot now

Hello everyone - the time has come for another meet up!

As per suggestions made at the previous event, the food at Norita's is crap, and Mafia has proven to be more fun than most board games. Hence, the suggestion goes that we might try City of Sydney RSL!

That said, esoteric pursuit is encouraged, and if you want to bring any materials like board games, feel free! Suggestions on time changes, venue changes and topics, as always, are solicited from the floor.

[Note - because of a large proportion of people attending who do not regularly read less wrong, a more general topic was chosen]

On this night, the topic is something recently highlighted on Less Wrong's sister blog, Overcoming bias. http://www.overcomingbias.com/2012/06/the-smart-are-more-biased-to-think-they-are-less-biased.html

Essentially, do you think being smarter makes you more fair in your judgement? Does the ability to see more patterns make you better, or merely more likley to be a conspiracy theorist?

Don't know the topic? Worried this is just another cult out for your organs? Doesn't matter. Come for the mindset, board games and to meet new people. Also, the increasingly absurd desserts available at Norita's Cafe and Board games.

Feel free to bring whomever you wish, as always. If you want to invite friends to the group, ask for admin status in the FB group!

Hey all! As usual, we'll be conducting our meet up at the Norita Cafe and Board Games. And furthermore, as usual, we'll be soliciting topics from the floor.

FB group availible at http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/219526434802422/

Hey all!

At the suggestion of at least 4 people (THAT'S QUORUM TO ME!) we will be conducting meetups on an "every 2 weeks" schedule. Following the Melbourne example, the intention is to alternate between social and rationality meet ups - based again on the alternating monday-thursday schedule.

Furthermore, we suppose there might be synergies to to attempting to integrate ourselves with circus soc on some evenings - somehow there seems to be a large demographic overlap. Thoughts are solicited!

As always, meetup FB group can be found at http://www.facebook.com/groups/219526434802422/

As suggested via the FB group, this coming meeting's topic will be Bayes and Fun theory. Now looking for Bayes games!

We are making this regular now - So every 3rd week, alternating Mondays/Fridays. As before, we will meet at Cafe Norita for a topic as yet fleshed out. Join us on facebook for more info, or comment here for your suggestions!

http://www.facebook.com/groups/219526434802422/

P.S. Just a congratulations to the "Post Hocs" (so classy guys) on their win at last meetings' Fact or Crap game. Their superior use of confidence values to justify wild guessing was sublime!

Hey everybody!

Apologies for the short notice on this meeting, but it felt preferable to sort this sooner given we are testing out a new location and time- Norita Cafe & Board Games (It's on level 2 - elevator access is weird, if you think you'll have trouble, contact ahead!). The topic is pretty social- we will attempt to build a small pool of predictions (based off local and global events) as a group, to be trialed over the next couple weeks until the next meeting. Given that this is a trial run style meeting, and the venue stocks tonnes of popular board games, I don't see why we should not consider the advantages of de-railment...

Otherwise, we'll be discussing more administrative matters like formalizing the regularity of meet-ups and fleshing out focused rationality skills workshops as suggested by one of our attendees.

Hey everybody. Deep inside the king street brewery, we plan to bring out rationalist board and card games. This, of course, is a much more social meet-up!

If your still on the fence about showing, Sydney turnout so far is good but could be better! We know you are out there, lurkers.

We have a FB group set up - just search Less wrong Sydney, or PM me with your FB name to add.

Hey everybody. Deep inside the king street brewery, we'll be hopefully coming to a discussion of the core sequences, as suggested at the last meeting. Plus general hanging about!

1. We have a FB group set up - just search Less wrong Sydney, or PM.
2. Dates, as always are fungible.