We're meeting at Extropolis conference hall at Yandex, again.

Please fill this form if you're planning to visit.

We'll have two talks by guest speakers, and also one brainstorm:

• Vitaliy Dolgorukov will talk about game theory pragmatics.
• Viktor Argonov will talk about a test for mind-body problem.
• Alexander230 will conduct a brainstorm session, searching for problem cases for training practical rationality Details on the talks are in the hackpad.

Location details and info for the newcomers:

We meet outside of the Yandex office, near the archway and bike parking place. Here is a guide how to get to Yandex: http://company.yandex.ru/contacts/redrose/.

Here is the street view of the entrance you need. Security wants me to meet each member personally, so if you're late, please call me (Slava) at +7(926)313-96-42. Though I'll very appreciate it if you're not late.

Expected duration of the meetup is 4-6 hours, depending on whether you'd like to stand for the afterparty activities. If you're not the member of our Moscow community yet, you might want to check out https://lesswrong-ru.hackpad.com/ , there's a lot of content about what's been going on for the last two years.

Also, please subscribe to our mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/rationality-in-moscow

Two important announcements:

1) We're moving to the Extropolis conference hall. It's in the same Yandex building (well, almost), but it has a different entrance. Look below for the details. 2) I got asked by Yandex people to implement a registration process. So, please enter your name into this form if you're going to join us. (I'll think about how to make this process less annoying for the regular visitors. In the meantime, the good news is that you don't need a Yandex badge to enter Extropolis.)

Our planned activities for this meetup:

• Alex will give a talk about meta-model.
• Pavel will give a talk about epistemology.
• Pion will talk about Taboo technique, and we'll have our usual belief investigation exercise. We also have a lot planned for the afterparty:
• Prisoner's dilemma tournament, again
• Brainstorm about how to improve Fallacymania (hey, if you're not from Moscow, but wondering what is Fallacymania, here are the rules translated in English: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/lesswrong-tel-aviv/9OT5yXHX1lo/RDmlIXz1bF4J)
• general lets-solve-each-other-problems session

Location details and some Info for the newcomers:

We meet outside of the Yandex office, near the archway and bike parking place. Here is a guide how to get to Yandex: http://company.yandex.ru/contacts/redrose/.

Here is the street view of the entrance you need. (upd: link fixed). You can enter it yourself, but please fill the registration form to avoid any issues with the security. If you can't find the entrance, call me (Slava) at +7(926)313-96-42.

Expected duration of the meetup is 4-6 hours, depending on whether you'd like to stand for the afterparty activities. If you're not the member of our Moscow community yet, you might want to check out https://lesswrong-ru.hackpad.com/ , there's a lot of content about what's been going on for the last two years.

Also, please subscribe to our mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/rationality-in-moscow

This Sunday, we'll have our usual meetup, consisting of three talks and one large practice session.

Talks (1h total):

• Eugene on power effects on cognition.
• Denis on two modes of time perception.
• Slava (me) on comparative advantage in economics (and life lessons following from it).

Communication practice session:

Pion will continue to organize the communication techniques practice. We will repeat the exercise from the last session, and try the new one.

Schedule details are in hackpad.

Info for the newcomers: We gather in the Yandex office, first revolving door is on the right from the archway, entrance 8.1. Here is a guide how to get to Yandex: http://company.yandex.ru/contacts/redrose/. If you're late, send me (Slava) an SMS at +7(926)313-96-42; you'll have to wait until I'm free to go down and meet you (which might take a while, I'm often busy with coordinating other stuff at the meetup). Expected duration of the meetup is 4 hours, plus a few hours of afterparty if you're willing to stay a bit longer.

If you're not the member of our Moscow community yet, you might want to check out https://lesswrong-ru.hackpad.com/, there's a lot of content about what's been going on for the last two years. Also, please subscribe to our mailing list.

This Sunday, at our usual place and time, we have the following activities planned:

5-minute talks:

• SD on the model of decision making;
• Max on CBT and traces of automatic thoughts in written texts.

Pion will explain phenomenological analysis, and then we will have our usual belief investigation practice.

Tanya will describe various creativity techniques and conduct the practice session using them.

Details are in the hackpad: https://lesswrong-ru.hackpad.com/-1-2015-uenk54vWVrC

Info for newcomers: We gather in the Yandex office, first revolving door is on the right from the archway, entrance 8.1. Here is a guide how to get to Yandex: http://company.yandex.ru/contacts/redrose/. If you're late, send me an SMS at +7(926)313-96-42; you'll have to wait until I'm free to go down and meet you (which might take a while, I'm often busy with coordinating other stuff at the meetup). Expected duration of the meetup is 4-5 hours.

If you're not the member of our Moscow community yet, you might want to check out https://lesswrong-ru.hackpad.com/, there's a lot of content about what's been going on for the last two years. Also, please subscribe to our mailing list.

Here's our plan for this Sunday:

• Pion will give a short talk about the Toulmin model of argument
• we'll have our usual belief investigation practice after this, hopefully using Toulmin's ideas
• Pavel will give a talk on the linguistic relativity and visual image categorization (which was canceled last time)
• finally, L29Ah will mediate a L29Ah-style discussion on why people attend our meetups

Details are in the hackpad: https://lesswrong-ru.hackpad.com/-15-2015-CRsNho3Ld1v. Feel free to ask and comment on anything related to our meetups there.

Info for newcomers:

We gather in the Yandex office, first revolving door is on the right from the archway, entrance 8.1. Here is a guide how to get to Yandex: http://company.yandex.ru/contacts/redrose/. If you're late, send me an SMS at +7(926)313-96-42; you'll have to wait until I'm free to go down and meet you (which might take a while, I'm often busy with coordinating other stuff at the meetup). Expected time length is 3-4 hours.

If you're not the member of our Moscow community yet, you might want to check out https://lesswrong-ru.hackpad.com/, there's a lot of content about what's been going on for the last two years.

What we have planned for Sunday:

1. Talk about the identity and self-esteem by Max, based on the ideas from Paul Graham, Albert Ellis and lesswrong.
2. Pavel's talk on the linguistic relativity and visual image categorization.
3. Pion will explain Davidson's view on the mind-body problem, and then debate it with Slava (me).
4. I'll summarize the results of our new habit installation group, and we'll figure out together how to continue with it.

Details in the hackpad: https://lesswrong-ru.hackpad.com/-1-2015-8OnqRJny4ZR

Info for newcomers:

We gather in the Yandex office, first revolving door is on the right from the archway, entrance 8.1. Here is a guide how to get to Yandex: http://company.yandex.ru/contacts/redrose/. If you're late, send me an SMS at +7(926)313-96-42; you'll have to wait until I'm free to go down and meet you (which might take a while, I'm often busy with coordinating other stuff at the meetup). Expected time length is 4-5 hours.

If you're not the member of our Moscow community yet, you might want to check out https://lesswrong-ru.hackpad.com/, there's a lot of content about what's been going on for the last two years.

PS: This is our traditional bi-weekly LW meetup, which is different from the LW lecture centre which started last week. The margin of this announcement is too narrow to contain the explanation on how and why this happened, but you may find some clues in the hackpad which I linked above.

Here's our plan: evolutionary origins of morality metaphilosophy, real world metaethics and some other strange things CBT (how to kill yourself by psychology). And maybe something about Stanovich model. Details and schedule: https://lesswrong-ru.hackpad.com/-21--A2k7ZUcyXyW Yudcoins, positive reinforcement and pizza will all be present. If you've been to our meetups, you know what I'm talking about, and if you didn't, the best way to find out is to come and see for yourself. Info for newcomers: We gather in the Yandex office. This time we'll be at Extropolis building, door is on the left from the archway. Here is a guide how to get to Yandex: http://company.yandex.ru/contacts/redrose/ Try to come in time, we will allow latecomers to enter every 15 minutes. Call Slava or send him SMS at +7(926)313-96-42 if you're late or can't find the entrance. We start at 14:00 and stay until at least 19-20. Please pay attention that we only gather near the entrance and then come inside.

Here's our plan for the next time:

• exercise on searching cognitive biases in texts
• a talk on cognitive errors for the practical case of building computer clusters
• calibration session
• talk and exercises on analyzing and changing your identity
• training game
• afterparty: board games

Yudcoins, positive reinforcement and pizza will all be present. If you've been to our meetups, you know what I'm talking about, and if you didn't, the best way to find out is to come and see for yourself.

Detailed schedule is in hackpad.

Info for newcomers:

We gather in the Yandex office, you need the first revolving door under the archway. Here is a guide how to get there: link. If this is your first meetup, can fill this one minute form to share your contact information. Call me at +7(926)313-96-42 if you're late.

We start at 14:00 and stay until at least 19-20. Please pay attention that we only gather near the entrance and then come inside.