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Sometimes you begin a conversation, or announce a project, or otherwise start something. What goes up must come down[1] and just so most things that get started should get finished. It's like starting a parenthesis, every open ( should be paired with a matching ). Some such things are begun...
Usually we use words to communicate, sharing an idea from my head to yours or from yours to mine. There's a neat linguistics concept called "speech acts" and in particular "performative utterances" where words aren't just communication, they're actions in their own right. There's a particular application of the performative...
> Screwtape, as the global ACX meetups czar, has to be reasonable and responsible in his advice giving for running meetups. > > And the advice is great! It is unobjectionably great. It's one in the morning. I just ran the east coast rationalist megameetup. A late night spike of...
Rationalist meetups are great. Once in a while they're life-changingly so. Lighthaven, a conference venue designed and run by rationalists, plays host to a lot of really good rationalist meetups. It's best-in-class for that genre of thing really, meeting brilliant and interesting people then staying up late into the night...
The Less Wrong General Census is unofficially here! You can take it at this link. (Update, the census has closed! Thank you for taking it. An analysis is planned to be out in late January.) The kinda-sorta-annual-if-you-really-squint tradition of the Less Wrong Census is once more upon us! I want...
I am an effective pizzaist. Sometimes, I want the world to contain more pizza, and when that happens I want as much good pizza as I can get for as little money as I can spend. I am not going anywhere remotely subtle with that analogy, but it's the best...
Here’s a fun format: get a big white board, and write the years of the 21st century. Write a category; something that has many variations come out every year. Next, write your picks or favourites. Now invite everyone attending to replace a year’s pick if they want and replace it...