Meetup : Moscow, Now 2 Sigma More Awesome

1 berekuk 05 November 2013 10:33AM

Discussion article for the meetup : Moscow, Now 2 Sigma More Awesome

WHEN: 10 November 2013 04:00:00PM (+0400)

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

We have lots of various content prepared this time, 2 standard deviations more than usual.

We're planning to have (not necessarily in this order):

  • a report from a participant of our ongoing willpower group;
  • a report about "Feeling Good" by David Burns;
  • an exercise on discovering your terminal values;
  • a section on how to make conversations more productive by learning to recognize several failure modes of arguing.

There might be a calibration session if we have time for it.

There might also be a cake, but it can turn out to be a lie.

As usual, we're going to have our ongoing Prediction Market, Scavenger Hunt, positive reinforcements (now with cashew as an option, not just chocolate!) and pizza.

We intend to broadcast this meetup on ustream or justin.tv, but considering the amount of chaos and the fact we never did it before, it's unlikely to turn out well. So join us in person if you can.

If you are going for the first time:

We gather in the Yandex office. Look the second revolving door with the sign “Яндекс”, here is the photo of the entrance. You need to pass the first entrance and the bicycle parking on your way. Here is an additional guide on 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, Now 2 Sigma More Awesome

Comment author: turchin 10 January 2013 09:27:49PM 2 points [-]

Is it possible to see a report about what has happened on previous sessions? How many people attended and what topics was discussed?

Comment author: berekuk 10 January 2013 11:29:13PM *  3 points [-]

There were 8 people at the last session. I expect to see a slight increase next time.

Topics included:

  • general introductions;
  • conjunction fallacy and planning fallacy (discussing in 2 subgroups);
  • anthropic trillemma / permutation city argument;
  • organizational issues;
  • discussion about how to expand our local presence, including one practical case of "how to touch on rationality topics at a dentist conference".

I'm not sure how representative this list is, it was my first LW meetup.

I hope me or someone else will post more detailed reports for future sessions.

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