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We Don't Drink Vodka (LW Moscow report)

And we don't have bears playing balalaikas. Well, I would like to tell you about Moscow rationality community after all, not about some B movie featuring crazy Russians. Moscow community have grown from 5 people on my first meetup to 17 on the last one. And I believe we have possibility to grow even more. Moscow is a big city and it must have many smart people who can start to study rationality. Our story began in May 2012, when I gathered the people for the first time. Spring meetup announcements hadn't attracted many new members, so we gathered, discussed our site with Russian translations of LessWrong Sequences and made some plans. Our first venue was one of the Subway restaurants in Moscow. The next milestone in our development was September meetup, when I started to use on-line form to collect information from potential members of our group. Or maybe for some other reason we had got new faces, and even recurring ones. I also told everyone than we should practice rationality skills doing some exercises. Of course we had a lot of theories and ideas to duscuss, but we had to be closer to the real world. That's why we started to practice our rationality skills. We have approximately 8-10 people on each meetup during this fall. Soon enough this practice yielded good results, new members became heroes and started to improve our ways of training and create new exercises. In January, 2013 one member of our group proposed big and comfortable office room, and we moved there. Our meetups suddenly became more organized and more new members appeared — this year we have 13 people on average. As for exercises, we practice calibration, tabooing, reframing, information value estimation and five minute debiasing. I will describe our versions of exercises below, and five minute debiasing you can find in the “How to Run a Successful Less Wrong Meetup” guidelines. Only a few people from our group can speak English well enough to come to CFAR workshops. I can't thank CFAR staf

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Discussion article for the meetup : Moscow meet up WHEN: 06 July 2014 02:00:00PM (+0400) WHERE: Russia, Moscow, ulitsa L'va Tolstogo 16 Attention! Time is changed, we gather at 14:00! We will have: * Chips announcement * Short reports about cognitive biases * Concepts decoupling, report * Chaotic discussion *...

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Discussion article for the meetup : Moscow meet up WHEN: 22 June 2014 02:00:00PM (+0400) WHERE: Russia, Moscow, ulitsa L'va Tolstogo 16 Attention! Time is changed, we gather at 14:00! We will have: * Paradoxes and cognitive shifts, report. * Nootropics, report. * Discussion modes, report. * Discussion and the...

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Discussion article for the meetup : Moscow meet up WHEN: 08 June 2014 04:00:00PM (+0400) WHERE: Russia, Moscow, ulitsa L'va Tolstogo 16 The 1st of June meet up is rescheduled to the 8th of June! We will have two streams, and sections with the same numbers will be conducted in...

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Discussion article for the meetup : Moscow meet up WHEN: 18 May 2014 04:00:00PM (+0400) WHERE: Russia, Moscow, ulitsa L'va Tolstogo 16 We will have: * Probe phenomenon and limits of corporeality, report. * Small reports about cognitive biases. * What is pragmatics and semantic solutions of some of its...

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Discussion article for the meetup : Moscow meet up WHEN: 20 April 2014 04:00:00AM (+0400) WHERE: Russia, Moscow, ulitsa L'va Tolstogo 16 We will have: * Unicorns: false but useful beliefs, report. * Boundaries of rationality, discussion. * Cognitive behavioural therapy as a framework for daily rationality, report. * How...

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Discussion article for the meetup : Moscow Meet up WHEN: 06 April 2014 04:00:00PM (+0400) WHERE: Russia, Moscow, ulitsa L'va Tolstogo 16 We will have: * Answers for your questions about cognitive behavioural therapy. * One or two short presentations about cognitive biases. * Presentation about externalism. * Presentation about...

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Discussion article for the meetup : Moscow, Chaotic Meet up WHEN: 23 March 2014 04:00:00PM (+0400) WHERE: Russia, Moscow, ulitsa L'va Tolstogo 16 We will have: * Board games * Non-board games You can see proposed program in more details here (in Russian). We gather in the Yandex office, you...

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