In a recent post, members of the Roam community praised the “lack of new features”, or “it still looks like 2020” as a feature, not a bug[6]. It seems that Roam found its true believers, and not just those who once purchased a Believer plan and canceled it. Roam's community may have shrunk, but it remains strong.

Strong evaporative cooling of group beliefs vibes.

We are currently at 270 attendees for LessOnline! It's gonna be a busy weekend. 

Also (if you haven't seen) lots of new great writers confirmed attending including Scott Sumner, Agnes Callard, and Patrick McKenzie.

Seems to me like there'll be a lot of options for how much stuff you want to do. I'm expecting someone to run a really fun and educational trading class for a cohort of people, I expect there'll be a few meetups, there's over 100 people with tickets for Summer Camp to hang out with, and I think there'll be like 20-30 people living on-site. 

I think if you wanted to work like 2 or 3 days that week you could, and if you wanted to keep socializing and doing activities then you could do that too.

It might be a good on the current margin to have a norm of publicly listing any non-disclosure agreements you have signed (e.g. on one's LW profile), and the rough scope of them, so that other people can model what information you're committed to not sharing, and highlight if it is related to anything beyond the details of technical research being done (e.g. if it is about social relationships or conflicts or criticism).

I have added the one NDA that I have signed to my profile.

Welcome!

1. Yes. We have two or three (slightly hard to access) laundry machines on-site, and a laundrettes just down the street. I'm not sure what the default situation will end up being, but you'll be able to do laundry.
2. I'm pretty happy to give people refunds if something surprising happens and they come to the evet. I reserve the right to change my mind at any time if I think someone is abusing my trust somehow.
3. Thanks! Fixed the bug.

Thanks for the questions, and I hope you make it! Here's are my answers, happy to answer more/follow-ups.

1. Summer Camp is our name for the chill period between the two festival weekends. We've already sold ~100 tickets just for Summer Camp, so it's gonna be active.
2. SFO and OAK. You can get the Bart from SFO and then walk the last 20 mins. Google maps says that there's also public transport from Oakland (which to be clear is a fair bit closer than SFO). I haven't gone that route before, I think it might involve buses.
3. There's a few places people will be sleeping. They both have two showers that are right nearby and then there are lots more communally accessible ones dotted around campus (taking like 30-60 seconds to walk there). We'll stick a map up. 
   1. My guess is in one location it'll be 8 people for the 2 showers, and in the other location it could get to be many more people, and extra folks will need to do a little walking.
4. About 4 are one block away in our Ellsworth house. The rest are on site (mostly building E).
5. We had a 250-person event here last year, WiFi was generally fine. A few parts of campus are spotty (typically the outer edges). (We care a lot about WiFi issues and our team is down to help debug them.)

@Ruby @RobertM 

I miswrote a bit when I said "relationships". Yes, names and faces both trigger social recognition, but I meant to make the point that they operate in significantly different ways in the brain, and facial recognition is tuned to processing a lot of emotional and social cues that we aren't tuned to from text. I have tons of social associations with people's physical forms that are beyond simply their character.

(A language model helped me write this comment.)

I did find it and we sent him an email, hope he reads it and joins :)

I am fairly strongly against having faces, which I think boot up a lot of social instincts that I disprefer on LessWrong. LessWrong is a space where what matters is which argument is true, not who you like / have relationships with. I think some other sort of unique icon could be good.