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What is the latest time that I can sign up and realistically expect that there'll be spaces left? I am interested, but I can't really commit 10 months in advance.
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We are happy to announce the LessWrong Community Weekend 2016! From September 2 to September 4 awesome people from all across Europe are coming to Berlin to meet, exchange ideas, and start projects together.
Details at: http://lesswrong.com/lw/n33/european_community_weekend_2016/
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There's a good chance you'll be able to participate even if you sign up late. We plan for more participants this time (100 instead of 80) and will also stagger signups in a way keeps some tickets available until a month in advance. If you want to be sure, committing now remains the best option though.
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What language will proceedings generally be conducted in? Alas, the only one I speak is English.
There'll be many international participants so the official proceedings and most informal discussion will be conducted in English.
Meetup : European Community Weekend 2015
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This is the meetup post for the LWCW2015
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I'd appreciate greatly if I could fill in the second part of the form at a later date, maybe ~3 months prior to the weekend.
Of course it will also be possible to offer contributing content at a later point. There will be an additional "call for papers" at a date closer to the actual event.
European Community Weekend 2014 retrospective
So finally - with two weeks distance to the first European LessWrong Community Weekend - we want to share the organizers’ perception of the event, including a short overview of what went well, what did not and what exceeded our expectations.
First and foremost we thank all the participants and speakers for helping us in making this such a great weekend. We had an incredible time and are very happy everything worked out as well as it did. In our opinion the event was a great success! Meeting everyone was excellent and we look forward to running a similar yet improved event in the future.
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The response has been great: We now have 40 people tentatively signed up and can't accept more, unfortunately.
If you'd have wanted to sign up, please email John anyway! We may get back to you If someone can't come after all. It also gives us a better idea of how many people to expect next time!
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Suggestion: You could change the headline of this post to "European Community Weekend in Berlin" to make the international character of the event more immediately apparent.
Good point, done!
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This sounds like an excellent idea if you can get good number of countries represented. Could you clarify a couple things?
- Is that €70 per night or for the whole weekend (and with 2 breakfasts)?
- How many participants can attend?
- How many are signed up already?
I'll gladly clarify things:
- The 70 Euro mainly include a bed in a shared room for two nights, two breakfasts and a part of the conference room rent. We've tried to keep it as cheap as possible to allow everyone to attend.
- The conference room fits 40, maybe more. We currently only booked 30 beds but could surely extend that.
- Signing up involves transferring money, possibly internationally, and banks are ridiculously slow at executing these transfers. So only one person has successfully signed up by now. Maybe some bitcoin transfers have reached John already, I don't know. Yesterday evening there were 35 people who are definitely interested and 4-10 maybes.
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Here's a concrete anecdote related to the "Do-gooding and epistemic rationality" part.
One of the key benefits I got from the workshop I attended in 2014 was clearer perception and acceptance of my goals.
"I don't know what's important to me beyond myself, family, friends" and "It doesn't seem like I really care about the world" (donating to EA charities seemed like a should) got changed. I do care, and already did before the workshop. It seems like the goals hadn't propagated fully, I hadn't accepted them - possibly because of the scope, the stakes and the implications of taking them seriously.
I have a clear memory of this shift happening because the question "Given these goals, is what you're currently doing correct?" popped up for real the first time. It was great to be able to talk about it directly.