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/

This is the meetup post for the LWCW2015

We usually don't announce individual meetups here, but this is an exception! Check the full announcement for details on how to sign up.

Please join our mailing list if you're interested in our regular meetups.

This is a long term meetup announcement for Berlin. We're not sure we'll actually meet on the date given here, but there'll definitely be meetups (usually at least monthly) in the meantime.

Please join our mailing list for details.

We're meeting to discuss the Fermi paradox and the great filter. Everyone is welcome! There'll probably be 6-12 people.

Please look at the mailing list for details.

This is a long-term announcement, we are actually meeting biweekly! The intervening meetups aren't planned as far in advance, please use the mailing list!

Our next regular social meetup will be held on Saturday 15th June. It will likely take place at my house, check our mailing list for details.

The social meetup is intended as an informal and relaxed event for chats and games. Everyone is welcome!

Our next regular social meetup will be held on Saturday 20th April. We're meeting at John's place: If you're interested in coming, join our mailing list to get the exact location.

The social meetup is intended as an informal and relaxed event for chats and games. Everyone is welcome!

As announced on the mailing list: The next meetup will happen on Friday, April 5th, 19:30 at my house and we'll try something new. I declare it a 'practical rationality' or 'work' meetup, in which I'd like to establish some differences from the regular social gatherings we've done so far.

• Have a plan. Schedule food and activities. Actually follow it.
• Moderate discussion more strongly. Each subgroup will have one person responsible for keeping things on track, stop inadvertent topic switches, interrupt excessive anecdotes.
• Will probably alternate with social meetups.

Here's what I suggest for Friday:

19:30 - 20:00 - Settling down and food.

Edit: Fixme.

20:00 - 20:30 - What have you learned since we last met? What have you done?

This could be an interesting regular activity where we get a glimpse of what you're doing and which could help seed discussion later. Everyone is prompted to talk, answers should be short (< 3 min).

20:30 - 21:15 - Discussion groups?

I'd like to try breaking into discussion groups. The idea is that there are a several people who've announced beforehand that they'd lead a discussion on some topic and have briefly studied it. At the meetup, they give a mini-presentation (5 minute-ish) and everyone else decides which group to join. At the end of the session, one person from each group summarises for everyone else.

Check the mailing list for topics.

21:15 - end - Chat.

See you there!