Note: most our members join meetups via other channels. Still, the correlation between "found out about Moscow meetups via lesswrong.com" and "is a great fit for our community" is very high. So we're posting just a short link to the hackpad document with the schedule here instead of the full translation of the announcement into english.

Pad with the content for the 13.03.2016 meetup.

We're meeting at anticafe "Kocherga", as usual.

Meta: most our members join meetups via other channels. So lately I've been skipping announcements on lesswrong.com because of extra work on providing both russian and english texts. Still, the correlation between "found out about Moscow meetups via lesswrong.com" and "is a great fit for our community" is very high. So from now on I'm going to post a short link to our usual hackpad document and save 80% of extra effort.

Pad with the content for the 10.01.2016 meetup.

We're meeting at anticafe "Kocherga", as usual.

Meta: most our members join meetups via other channels. So lately I've been skipping announcements on lesswrong.com because of extra work on providing both russian and english texts. Still, the correlation between "found out about Moscow meetups via lesswrong.com" and "is a great fit for our community" is very high. So from now on I'm going to post a short link to our usual hackpad document and save 80% of extra effort.

Pad with the content for the 10.01.2016 meetup.

We're meeting at anticafe "Kocherga", as usual.

Regular bi-weekly meetup is happening this Sunday again. (We skipped a week because of upcoming Skepticon.)

We'll have a single talk, a big discussion on the future of our community, and several rational games.

Here's a full list:

• Eugene will talk about Foucault and Barthes, power, truth and "culture".
• I'll facilitate the Big Discussion. We'll talk about what we have right now, what kind of future we as a community would like to achieve (this includes both the desired internal state of the community and our goals in the outside world), and identify those of us would like to take some action.
• alexander230 will conduct a Zendo game.
• And then alexander230 will also conduct a Training Game.

Pad with the schedule.

BTW, we're also gathering a LW hackathon on Saturday.

PS: If you're joining us for the first time, read this, it might answer some of your questions.

I haven't announced our meetups here on lesswrong.com for a while, but we are still meeting bi-weekly. We moved from Yandex to our new anticafe "Kocherga".

Planned content:

1) I'll give a talk about scientific methodology issues, based on this great article. 2) Alexey Turchin will talk about global risks and will show his roadmap dedicated to this topic. 3) Alexander Popov will organize Fallacymania game. He'll also organize Zendo game at the afterparty. We also have another (secret and fun) event happening in Kocherga around 14:00. We have reserved a 15-minute section for explanations.

Pad with a detailed schedule.

PS: If you're joining us for the first time, read this, it might answer some of your questions.

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

Please fill this form OR join this FB event if you're planning to visit.

Here's the plan:

1. I'll give a short keynote on the community, communication culture and our epistemic ideals, if and only if enough new members will pre-register.
2. Denis will give a talk on why and how working on your beliefs is useful.
3. Pion will talk about the attribution error.
4. We'll have debates on whether scientific copyright can be good. The teams were predetermined at our last meetup, and we'll follow Karl Popper protocol, as usual.

Detailed schedule.

Information for the newcomers:

Here's the document explaining how to get to our meetups and what to expect. If you have any questions, or if you don't speak Russian and can't read the link, shoot me a PM.

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

Please fill this form OR join this FB event if you're planning to visit.

The planned activities include:

1. The talk about effective altruism (by me).
2. Maris will organize the game on hypothesis formulation training.
3. Debates! We'll use Karl Popper protocol yet again. We haven't settled on the topic yet, but we'll do so by Friday.
4. Alexander230 will organize the "guess 3/2 of the median" game.

Detailed schedule. (or, at least, it'll be more detailed than this post by Sunday...)

Information for the newcomers:

Here's the document explaining how to get to our meetups and what to expect. If you have any questions, or if you don't speak Russian and can't read the link, shoot me a PM.

We're meeting at Yandex, at the Extropolis conference hall. Please fill this form OR join this FB event if you're planning to visit.

We have two one-hour talks planned:

1. Mikhail Dektyarev about MIRI's work on modal agents in prisoner's dilemma.
2. turchin on the roadmap of the ways of mind improvement.

We'll have our regular Dynamic Epistemic Logic group with Pion and Denis (read some links from project's pad if you want to participate).

Alexander230 will organize the game of Zendo.

Detailed schedule.

Information for the newcomers:

Here's the document explaining how to get to our meetups and what to expect. If you have any questions, or if you don't speak Russian and can't read the link, shoot me a PM.

We're meeting at Yandex, at 7.Nebo. Please fill this form OR join this FB event if you're planning to visit.

Most people at our last meetup supported the proposal that we need less lectures and more activities and coworking-style projects. So this time we have only one talk:

1. turchin on the roadmap of the possible AI scenarios, both friendly and unfriendly.

Activities:

1. Alexander230 will lead a case-based exercise for practical rationality training.
2. Pion will organize the first session of a group for studying dynamic epistemic logic.
3. I'll show the MVP for my human subject volunteers database project.

Detailed schedule

Information for the newcomers:

I wrote a new document explaining how to get to our meetups and what to expect. You can read it here. In the rare case you don't speak Russian and can't read this link, shoot me a PM.

We're meeting at Yandex, at 7.Nebo (Extropolis is taken this time).

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

Planned activities:

1. Talk by marchdown on epistemology, Frege and Quine.
2. Report on a small framing research by Pion.
3. Proposal for a new online project (common database of volunteers for scientific experiments) by berekuk.

Afterparty activities:

• Fallacymania game, organized by Alexander230.
• Brainstorm on how to improve Fallacymania, facilitated by Yury.

Hackpad: https://lesswrong-ru.hackpad.com/-31-2015-417xPxFa6Jv

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/.

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 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