Meetup : Prague Less Wrong Meetup

1 kotrfa 11 November 2015 07:15PM

Discussion article for the meetup : Prague Less Wrong Meetup

WHEN: 02 December 2015 07:00:00PM (+0100)

WHERE: Peckova 15 182 00 Praha 8

I would like to announce our next Prague Less Wrong meetup. It will be held in a tea-room at Karlinske square on December 2nd starting at 7 p.m. (http://www.dharmasala.cz/wp/teahouse-dharmasala/)

We are a small group of people interested in topics around rationality, artificial general intelligence, self-improvement, technology, philosophy. We invite everyone interested to join our discussions!

You can recognize us by a "LW" sign on our table. See you there!

Discussion article for the meetup : Prague Less Wrong Meetup

Meetup : Lund Meetup

1 kotrfa 07 November 2015 09:35PM

Discussion article for the meetup : Lund Meetup

WHEN: 12 November 2015 12:15:00PM (+0100)

WHERE: Scheelevägen 15,223 63 Lund, Sweden

Hello,

we are two to three LessWrongers here and we decided to meet up a bit more regularly during the following weeks, most probably on Thursdays.

Don't hesitate to leave a personal message here (I promise I will take a look at it before every Thursday) so we can eventually update you with informations.

Bye, Daniel

Discussion article for the meetup : Lund Meetup

Meetup : First meetup in Lund

2 kotrfa 16 September 2015 01:48PM

Discussion article for the meetup : First meetup in Lund

WHEN: 19 October 2015 06:00:00PM (+0200)

WHERE: Sölvegatan 18, 223 62, Lund, Sweden

Hello, this is going to be the first meetup I know about in Skane area. Since I don't know any other LessWrongers here, I'll be waiting in front of LTH Mathuset for at least one hour (maybe I will be sitting inside right behind the main doors). Look for 22-year-old, tall, skinny, brown curly haired guy.

Please contact me if you are interested in a meeting, but the time just doesn't fit you - it will be at least some sign for me that someone is interested.

Feel free to ask if you have any questions.

I decided to try to make a meetup from time to time to see if someone will ever show up. My goal is to establish regular meetings of stable core of LessWrongers, even though I am going to spend only half year here (I am international student). I am not really skilled LessWronger, but I run one group in Prague already and it's fine :) .

Discussion article for the meetup : First meetup in Lund

Meetup : Rationality meetup in Prague #3

1 kotrfa 27 May 2015 09:24AM

Discussion article for the meetup : Rationality meetup in Prague #3

WHEN: 30 June 2015 06:30:00PM (+0200)

WHERE: Václavské náměstí 778/14, Praha 110 00

Hello,

this is third long-term planed meetup in Prague.

We are currently a group of five people regularly meeting every week or so. Our sessions are sometimes just talk about our life or we hold some presentations (technology, morality, ethics, transhumanism...). More about it here http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Less_Wrong_meetup_groups#Prague.2C_Czech_Republic.

We all are open meeting new interesting people and even if you just want to hang out with us, don't hesitate to come!

You can recognize us by having paper with "LW" on it on our table. Meet up is going to be in Dobrá Čajovna s.r.o. (tea-room).

Looking forward to see you there! :)

Discussion article for the meetup : Rationality meetup in Prague #3

Meetup : Prague - setting up

1 kotrfa 22 February 2015 11:44AM

Discussion article for the meetup : Prague - setting up

WHEN: 23 March 2015 07:30:00PM (+0100)

WHERE: Václavské náměstí 778/14, Praha 110 00

Hello,

this is second long-term planed meetup in Prague.

We are currently in the beginning of creating a core group here hence be prepared for that - we haven't established any plan, purpose, program or rules yet. We all are open meeting new interesting people and even if you just want to hang out with us, don't hesitate to come!

You can recognize us by having paper with "LW" on it on our table.

Besides this meeting, we are also meeting more frequently (once a 1-2 weeks). You are very welcome - just send me a message here on LW and I will inform you about current plans and add you to our group with additional info.

Report from the first meetup http://lesswrong.com/lw/lql/czechs_first_meetup_in_prague_report/

Discussion article for the meetup : Prague - setting up

Czech's first Meetup in Prague report

14 kotrfa 19 February 2015 08:52AM

Hello,

I'm happy to inform Less Wrong community about new meet up in Czech Republic, Prague. Despite the fact that nobody came at meet up I'd organized 2 months ago (mainly because it was organized only two weeks ahead), yesterday we met in 5 people. Plus, some other people (about next 3) just couldn't make it yesterday, but are interested in future meet ups.

All of us are young men in 21-25, studying or working in mathematics (mainly data science), informatics or AI and one of us is studying international affairs. 

Just 2 of us have some stronger background with Less Wrong (we have read HPMOR and at least core sequences), the rest is interested in these and are willing to catch up (more or less) and came based on our recommendation or by getting at the LW by luck.

We agreed we'd like to meet regularly to share our opinions, lifehacking experiences, commenting our lives etc. and we are going to meet in next 14 days. In addition, we agreed to plan longer-term meet up for those who don't visit LW too often and hence have a chance to notice it.

Currently, the most challenging task I see so far is to find an optimal shape, form, of the group and formulate it's motives and goals. It ranges from just being friends and chat from time to time to highly organized group with fixed time schedule, active work and close relationships. Of course, I do realize how hard it is to hold the group together and how we should not rely only on initial enthusiasm. 

Yesterday, we discussed for about 3 hours about various topics like lifehacking, our studies, tips, most-actual-questions, our lifes... The most surprising thing I've found was how diverse we are in different techniques which help to our productivity - one of us needs stress, I need exact time schedule, other one is more effective when taking things easy, one testing nootropics, other one meditation, I eat my frog at the morning, other one after some other pleasant things et etcetera. Another interesting thing was how our lives have been entangled together - we know same people or friends, we have visited same courses... Not so surprising when living in city just with million or so people, but still interesting. 

Less Wrong website (community) was what brings as together and I feel obligated to inform the community about it's impact and happiness it nourishes. Also, any recommendations and help is welcome (I try to use  http://wiki.lesswrong.com/mediawiki/images/c/ca/How_to_Run_a_Successful_Less_Wrong_Meetup_Group.pdf as a reference guide).

Thank you for that and I'm happy to see you on our future meet-ups (which will be held, I hope).

Meetup : Czech's first Meetup Prague

1 kotrfa 22 January 2015 10:40AM

Discussion article for the meetup : Czech's first Meetup Prague

WHEN: 16 February 2015 06:00:00PM (+0100)

WHERE: Václavské náměstí 778/14, Praha 110 00

Hello, this is going to be the first meetup I know about in Czech Republic. Since I don't know any other LessWrongers here, I'll be waiting in Dobrá Čajovna s.r.o. (tea-room) for at least one hour. Look for 22-year-old, tall, skinny, brown curly haired guy.

Please contact me if you are interested in a meeting, but the time just doesn't fit you - it will be at least some sign for me that someone is at least interested.

Feel free to ask if you have any questions.

I decided to try to make a meetup from time to time (this is the second try) to see if someone will ever show up. It's a pity (and shame) that there are no meetups here. My goal is to estabilish regular meetings of stable core of LessWrongers.

Discussion article for the meetup : Czech's first Meetup Prague

Meetup : Czech's first Meetup Prague

1 kotrfa 21 September 2014 08:07PM

Discussion article for the meetup : Czech's first Meetup Prague

WHEN: 26 September 2014 07:30:00PM (+0200)

WHERE: Václavské náměstí 778/14, Praha 110 00

Hello, this is going to be first meetup I know about in Czech Republic, specially in Prague. Since I don't know any other rationalists here, I'll be waiting in Dobrá Čajovna s.r.o. (tearoom) for at least one hour. Look for young, tall, skinny, brown curly haired guy.

Please contact me if you are interested in a meeting, but the time just doesn't fit you - it will be at least some sign that someone is interested.

Feel free to ask if you have any questions.

I decided to try to make a meetup from time to time to see if someone will ever show up. It's a pity (and shame) that there are no meetups here.

Discussion article for the meetup : Czech's first Meetup Prague

Want to work on "strong AI" topic in my bachelor thesis

1 kotrfa 14 May 2014 10:28AM

Hello,

I currently study maths, physics and programming (general course) on CVUT at Prague (CZE). I'm finishing second year and I'm really into AI. The most interesting questions for me are:

  • what formalism to use for connecting epistemology questions (about knowledge, memory...) and cognitive sciences with maths and how to formulate them
  • find principles of those and trying to "materialize" them into new models
  • I'm also kind of philosophy-like questions about AI
It is clear to me, that I'm not able to work on these problems fully, because of my lack of knowledge. Despite that, I'd like to find a field, where I could work on at least similar topics. Currently, I'm working on datamining project, but for last few months I don't find it fulfilling as I'd expected. On my university there is plenty of possibilities in multi-agent systems, "weak AI" (e.g well-known drone navigation), brain simulations and so on. As it seems to me, no one is really seriously maintaining with something like MIRI, nor they are presenting something what has as least same direction. 

The only group which is working on "strong AI", is kind of closed (it is sponsored by philanthropist Marek Rosa) and they are not interested in students as I am (partly understandable).
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