Comment author: Barry_Cotter 20 April 2011 10:46:01PM *  9 points [-]

I would be incredibly surprised if we are contained within it. I would be kind of surprised if we're contained to 90% within any 10X larger group. There is definitely a large overlap with Hacker News.

Comment author: rfrankel 01 May 2011 10:12:09PM 0 points [-]

Most of the NYLW regulars aren't HN readers.

Comment author: Cosmos 20 February 2011 09:50:02PM 5 points [-]

It doesn't sound like fun to you, which implies you didn't try it. FWIW, everyone who participated in the game thought that was one of the most fun meetups we have had to date. I greatly enjoyed the activity myself. The fast pace kept everyone fully engaged in the activity, and the rotating topic kept the conversation from getting bogged down. Cognitive biases are a topic of interest for our rationalist group, doing this alone instead of with a group of friends might indeed be less fun, but as you pointed out still quite useful.

Comment author: rfrankel 25 February 2011 12:27:02AM *  0 points [-]

Seconded - I was one of the participants and it was, indeed, fun. There were plenty of laughs, and even if there hadn't been, hanging out with good people and learning counts as fun in my book.