Meetup : Moscow, Scholarship and Happiness

0 Yuu 03 February 2014 09:48AM

Discussion article for the meetup : Moscow, Scholarship and Happiness

WHEN: 09 February 2014 04:00:00PM (+0400)

WHERE: Russia, Moscow, ulitsa L'va Tolstogo 16

We will gather at the same second entrance, but we will go to a room inside the building at 16:00. So please do not be late.

  • Workshop about acquiring scientific knowledge.

  • Short presentation about one of cognitive biases.

  • Stumbling on happiness for rationalists presentation.

We gather in the Yandex office, you need the second revolving door with the sign “Яндекс”, here is the photo of the entrance you need. You need to pass the first entrance and the bicycle parking on you way. Here is additional guide how to get there: link.

You can fill this one minute form (in Russian), to share your contact information.

We start at 16:00 and sometimes finish at night. Please pay attention that we only gather near the second entrance and then come inside.

Discussion article for the meetup : Moscow, Scholarship and Happiness

Meetup : Moscow, Another Meet up

0 Yuu 23 January 2014 06:23PM

Discussion article for the meetup : Moscow, Another Meet up

WHEN: 26 January 2014 04:00:00PM (+0400)

WHERE: Russia, Moscow, ulitsa L'va Tolstogo 16

We will gather at the same second entrance, but we will go to the new room at 16:00. So please do not be late.

Main topics and activities:

  • Confounding, short presentation

  • Discussions

If you are going for the first time:

We gather in the Yandex office, you need the second revolving door with the sign “Яндекс”, here is the photo of the entrance you need. You need to pass the first entrance and the bicycle parking on you way. Here is additional guide how to get there: link. You can fill this one minute form (in Russian), to share your contact information.

We start at 16:00 and sometimes finish at night. Please pay attention that we only gather near the second entrance and then move to the new room.

Discussion article for the meetup : Moscow, Another Meet up

Comment author: listic 08 January 2014 11:17:16PM *  1 point [-]

I believe that tulpas expend host's attention, unless proven otherwise.

Why do you think that attention is a central part of human thinking?

Here's what I am thinking: Attention seems to be a crucial and finite resource. I could certainly become more productive if I become more attentive, and vice versa. If creating a tulpa expends my attention, it is a negative-sum game for me; if it makes me training attention as a side effect, that's good, but not better than just training attention.

Have you never had the experience that you searched for a piece of information in your mind and can't find it, then two hours later it pops into your mind?

Sure! Sometimes I try hard to remember a piece of information, but can't. Then later, when I don't try, it just pops. Interesting, but usually unhelpful.

From what I read of the field there nobody even making a business out of the topic

Shouldn't the fact that nobody ever made a business out of the topic be counted as evidence towards impossibility to make a business out of the topic? If tulpas were monetizable in any way, why wouldn't there be people monetizing them?

Now, I fantasize that maybe our minds just need some tiny little upgrade for tulpas to become a clear advantage? Can you help me imagine what would that be?

Comment author: Yuu 10 January 2014 12:53:40PM *  0 points [-]

Exocortex is what you need.

There are methods to remember things better, to wake up at a specific time, to make unconscious mind work for you. The last one may be disputable technique, because there are still debates regarding work of unconscious mind. But you do not need tulpa for that.

By the way, I have some well-detailed characters from role-playing game of mine, they act much like tulpas but without visual image in surrounding environment. I just have their pictures and appearances in mind. Another difference is that the most of them do not know about me, because they live in my imaginary world. But this world is very similar to ours, so I can easily provide one of them access to the LessWrong site and this character can even participate in conversations. Also I can arrange a meeting with me as an imaginary copy or even provide them information that they are imaginary characters.

Meetup : Moscow, First New Year

0 Yuu 04 January 2014 06:05PM

Discussion article for the meetup : Moscow, First New Year

WHEN: 12 January 2014 04:00:00PM (+0400)

WHERE: Russia, Moscow, ulitsa L'va Tolstogo 16

It will be our next meet up, so there is no gathering on 5th.

We will gather at the same second entrance, but we will go to the new room at 16:00. So please do not be late.

Main topics and activities:

  • Consequentialism and deontology, short presentation

  • Training game

  • Dutch booking

If you are going for the first time: We gather in the Yandex office, you need the second revolving door with the sign “Яндекс”, here is the photo of the entrance you need. You need to pass the first entrance and the bicycle parking on you way. Here is additional guide how to get there: link.

You can fill this one minute form (in Russian), to share your contact information.

We start at 16:00 and sometimes finish at night. Please pay attention that we only gather near the second entrance and then move to the new room.

Discussion article for the meetup : Moscow, First New Year

Comment author: lukeprog 07 September 2011 07:16:11PM *  0 points [-]

Yeah, I bought the Kindle version a few days ago. Very handy for getting up to speed very quickly on our understanding of intelligence. I wish there was an Oxford Handbook of Rationality that wasn't from 2005 and didn't suck.

Comment author: Yuu 20 December 2013 09:03:31AM 0 points [-]

Do you mean handbook published in 2004? And could you please describe in a few words why does it suck?

Meetup : Moscow: Art Therapy for Emotions

1 Yuu 19 December 2013 06:22AM

Discussion article for the meetup : Moscow: Art Therapy for Emotions

WHEN: 24 December 2013 06:00:00PM (+0400)

WHERE: Russia, Moscow, Losinoostrovskaya ulitsa 24с1

We will gather at a new location this time to participate in an art therapy workshop. You can learn how to work with your emotions with this method, there will be practical demonstration and discussion about it.

We will start at 18:00 and finish about 20.

How to get there

Please read a detailed description in Russian here.

Discussion article for the meetup : Moscow: Art Therapy for Emotions

Meetup : Moscow, How Can Visual Image Be Rational

1 Yuu 16 December 2013 05:18PM

Discussion article for the meetup : Moscow, How Can Visual Image Be Rational

WHEN: 22 December 2013 04:00:00PM (+0400)

WHERE: Russia, Moscow, ulitsa L'va Tolstogo 16

We will gather at the same second entrance, but we will go to the new room at 16:00. So please do not be late.

This Sunday we will have visual image and created expression workshop. You can ask to analyse you own image, you can also bring some photos. Or you can send these photos for us in advance at lw@lesswrong.ru.

In the second section we will have something from the following list:

  • Belief investigation

  • Training game

  • Dutch booking

  • Moderated discussion

  • Useful ideas sharing

  • Tabletop games

You can read a bit more in Russian notice.

If you are going for the first time: We gather in the Yandex office, you need the second revolving door with the sign “Яндекс”, here is the photo of the entrance you need. You need to pass the first entrance and the bicycle parking on you way. Here is additional guide how to get there: link. You can fill this one minute form (in Russian), to share your contact information. We start at 16:00 and sometimes finish at night. Please pay attention that we only gather near the second entrance and then move to the new room.

Discussion article for the meetup : Moscow, How Can Visual Image Be Rational

Meetup : Moscow, The First Winter One

0 Yuu 05 December 2013 05:09PM

Discussion article for the meetup : Moscow, The First Winter One

WHEN: 08 December 2013 04:00:00PM (+0400)

WHERE: Russia, Moscow, ulitsa L'va Tolstogo 16

We will have a report about psychedelic drugs and a discussion session.

We will also have Prediction Market and Scavenger Hunt. You can follow the corresponding links to the discussions on the Russian forum.

We may move to another location from Yandex office, so please do not be late.

If you are going for the first time: We gather in the Yandex office, you need the second revolving door with the sign “Яндекс”, here is the photo of the entrance you need. You need to pass the first entrance and the bicycle parking on you way. Here is additional guide how to get there: link. You can fill this one minute form (in Russian), to share your contact information.

We start at 16:00 and sometimes finish at night.

Discussion article for the meetup : Moscow, The First Winter One

Meetup : Moscow, Memory Tricks

0 Yuu 18 November 2013 10:57AM

Discussion article for the meetup : Moscow, Memory Tricks

WHEN: 24 November 2013 04:00:00PM (+0400)

WHERE: Russia, Moscow, ulitsa L'va Tolstogo 16

We will have a report about how memory works, tips and tricks to remember, spaced repetition and Anki.

There will be a discussion section next, so please think about topics you want to discuss on Sunday.

After that we will have a game session: you can bring some tabletop games and play it with other people.

We will also have Prediction Market and Scavenger Hunt. You can follow the corresponding links to the discussions on the Russian forum.

If you are going for the first time: We gather in the Yandex office, you need the second revolving door with the sign “Яндекс”, here is the photo of the entrance you need. You need to pass the first entrance and the bicycle parking on you way. Here is additional guide how to get there: link. You can fill this one minute form (in Russian), to share your contact information. We start at 16:00 and sometimes finish at night.

Discussion article for the meetup : Moscow, Memory Tricks

Comment author: efim 12 November 2013 06:30:38PM 0 points [-]

Point taken. It is less ambiguous like that. But is there other easy way to access meetup announcements other than via map on main page, so it became confusing in the first place?

Comment author: Yuu 13 November 2013 06:14:11AM 0 points [-]

This link maybe? http://lesswrong.com/meetups/ You can follow it clicking on the “Nearest Meetups” title on the right column.

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