When: 7:00pm Wednesday, June 5th.
Where: The Westside Tavern in the upstairs Wine Bar (all ages welcome), located inside the Westside Pavillion on the second floor, right by the movie theaters. The entrance sign says "Lounge".
Parking is free for 3 hours.
Discussion: We will review and brainstorm methods for measuring the effects of changes when doing self-experimentation (trying a new medication, work environment, life policy, etc.), and consider what failure modes might exist for different sorts of self-experiments. Very abstract, but we will start off with a few useful working examples!
No prior knowledge of or exposure to Less Wrong is necessary; this will be generally accessible and useful to everyone who values thinking for themselves. There will be open general conversation until 7:30, and that's always a lot of good, fun, intelligent discussion!
I will bring a whiteboard with Bayes' Theorem written on it.
When: 7:00pm Wednesday, May 22nd.
Where: The Westside Tavern in the upstairs Wine Bar (all ages welcome), located inside the Westside Pavillion on the second floor, right by the movie theaters. The entrance sign says "Lounge".
Parking is free for 3 hours.
Lecture/Discussion: Graphs can make understanding causality very intuitive and easy. They are also a powerful tool for doing more complicated modeling. I will introduce PGMs as a concept, and show a few examples where they can be useful.
No prior knowledge of or exposure to Less Wrong is necessary; this will be generally accessible and useful to everyone who values thinking for themselves. There will be open general conversation until 7:30, and that's always a lot of good, fun, intelligent discussion!
I will bring a whiteboard with Bayes' Theorem written on it.
Let's make it! Who's in to help program? I'll start a github repo and a google group as soon as a few people are committed.
When: 7:00pm Wednesday, March 27th.
Where: The Westside Tavern in the upstairs Wine Bar (all ages welcome), located inside the Westside Pavillion on the second floor, right by the movie theaters. The entrance sign says "Lounge".
Parking is free for 3 hours.
Lecture/Discussion: Graphs can make understanding causality very intuitive and easy. They are also a powerful tool for doing more complicated modeling. I will introduce PGMs as a concept, and show a few examples where they can be useful.
No prior knowledge of or exposure to Less Wrong is necessary; this will be generally accessible and useful to everyone who values thinking for themselves. There will be open general conversation until 7:30, and that's always a lot of good, fun, intelligent discussion!
I will bring a whiteboard with Bayes' Theorem written on it.
When: 7:00pm Wednesday, March 13th.
Where: The Westside Tavern in the upstairs Wine Bar (all ages welcome), located inside the Westside Pavillion on the second floor, right by the movie theaters. The entrance sign says "Lounge".
Parking is free for 3 hours.
Discussion: This week we will talk about evidence. This means we will do a bit of math (super basic Bayesian update example problems) to get a sense of how much weak evidence it takes to counter strong evidence, etc. This will certainly lead into discussion on how to do this in mathemtically intractable cases (basically, all of them), and probably into musing on what calculations we may have to reconsider in our own lives.
No foreknowledge or exposure to Less Wrong is necessary; this will be generally accessable and useful to anyone who values thinking for themselves. There will be open general conversation until 7:30, and that's always a lot of good, fun, intelligent discussion!
I will bring a whiteboard with Bayes' Theorem written on it.
When: 7:00pm Wednesday, February 27th.
Where: The Westside Tavern in the upstairs Wine Bar (all ages welcome), located inside the Westside Pavillion on the second floor, right by the movie theaters. The entrance sign says "Lounge".
Parking is free for 3 hours.
Discussion Topic: This week we will talk about Nootropics and other associated things. This will range from discussion of the biochemistry to evaluating efficacy and safety of such things. The objective isn't to say "chemicals are the best way to make me smart!", but rather "how can I tell if this or that chemical is worth my time and money as a means of fulfilling my goals?"
No foreknowledge or exposure to Less Wrong is necessary; this will be generally accessable and useful to anyone who values thinking for themselves. There will be open general conversation until 7:30, and that's always a lot of good, fun, intelligent discussion!
I will bring a whiteboard with Bayes' Theorem written on it.
When: 7:00pm Wednesday, January 30th.
Where: The Westside Tavern in the upstairs Wine Bar (all ages welcome), located inside the Westside Pavillion on the second floor, right by the movie theaters. The entrance sign says "Lounge".
Parking is free for 3 hours.
Game/Discussion: This week, we will play a fun board game which merits discussion! The game you will enjoy, and the discussion will cover probability, betting, and value of concensus as evidence.
No foreknowledge or exposure to Less Wrong is necessary; this will be generally accessable and useful to anyone who values thinking for themselves. There will be open general conversation until 7:30, and that's always a lot of good, fun, intelligent discussion!
I will bring a whiteboard with Bayes' Theorem written on it.
Sorry, I didn't notice this comment until just now. Usually, less than or equal to half of the table will have a single drink, two at most. Enough that people are comfortable and talkative, but not partying. Only once was someone ever drunk (and that was a game night). If you drink enough that you need to take the bus home, you will probably have drunk more than everyone else.
Orion will be hosting this week's meetup, and asked me to post the following:
When: 7:00pm Wednesday, January 16th.
Where: The Westside Tavern in the upstairs Wine Bar (all ages welcome), located inside the Westside Pavillion on the second floor, right by the movie theaters. The entrance sign says "Lounge".
Parking is free for 3 hours.
Lecture/Discussion: This meetup will be oriented around building one of two systems: either escape hatches to require ourselves to fallback to deliberate decision making (Type 2 thinking) when it matters, or rebuilding our first-glance judgments (Type 1 thinking) to be heuristics that work better for our goals. Particularly of note are resources on the habit-forming, which while somewhat tangential, are generally interesting. See BJ Fogg on habits and Roy Baumeister on ego depletion for a general idea of the discussion topics.
No foreknowledge or exposure to Less Wrong is necessary; this will be generally accessable and useful to anyone who values thinking for themselves. There will be open general conversation until 7:30, and that's always a lot of good, fun, intelligent discussion!
Nick will bring a whiteboard with Bayes' Theorem written on it, and I'll generally swoop in to rescue anyone feeling particularly embarrassed about asking strangers if they're from Less Wrong (which is not at all embarrassing, so don't worry about asking!)
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Bulimia studies might be a good place to start when evaluating the effects of such a program!