Discussion article for the meetup : Waterloo Meetup: Nomic WHEN: 05 December 2011 09:00:00PM (-0500) WHERE: 2-4 King Street North Waterloo, Ontario, Canada The second meeting of our newly founded LW Waterloo chapter. Suggested activity is a game of nomic, with a discussion topic to be decided. Join our mailing...
Discussion article for the meetup : First(New?) Waterloo Meetup WHEN: 24 November 2011 08:00:00PM (-0500) WHERE: Meetpoint, 150 University Ave W, Waterloo, Ontario LWers from Waterloo - of whom I know there are a few - assemble! It looks like there have been a few meetups in the past, but...
It might be more fun to say, but "I think like a supervillian" seems like a particularly dangerous cached thought to have, in that it will inspire overconfidence if you /ever actually encounter a supervillian/. A very smart agent whose goals are in direct conflict with yours AND who has no scruples AND hasn't forsworn the dark arts is /not someone you think like/.
I wish I had known about this sooner!
Three.
Edit: Interestingly, the woman who insisted I take her number was positively disintersted when I did call.
I've always considered "be yourself" to mean "don't pretend to be someone you're not", which is wonderful advice because unless you're /very/ good at it, most people will see through your disguise.
There is something to be said about being confident enough that you don't follow the social script. Like seemingly most things in dating, the strategy doesn't matter very much - it's all about the way you portray yourself.
After a friend recommended giving women my number, I have completely stopped asking for theirs. With n=~10, only one has declined saying that it was my responsiblity to take hers. The others all seemed delighted that I was different, and willing to give them more of the direct power whether or not they'd like to see me again.
My general advice in this department would to be to completely forget that there is a script and simply experiment to see what works for you.
Aloha.
My name is Sandy and despite being a long time lurker, meetup organizer and CFAR minicamp alumnus, I've got a giant ugh field around getting involved in the online community. Frankly it's pretty intimidating and seems like a big barrier to entry - but this welcome thread is definitely a good start :)
IIRC, I was linked to Overcoming Bias through a programming pattern blog in the few months before LW came into existence, and subsequently spent the next three months of my life doing little else than reading the sequences. While it was highly fascinating and seemed good for my cognitive health, I never thought about applying it to /real life/.
Somehow I... (read more)
I'm bad at scheduling things and forgot to make a reservation. Tonight we'll be meeting at 9pm instead of 8. I really apologize for any inconveniences this might cause.
tl;dr: The time is changed to 9pm.
Interesting. Could you elaborate on this a little more?
The second meeting of our newly founded LW Waterloo chapter. Suggested activity is a game of nomic, with a discussion topic to be decided.
Join our mailing list (http://groups.google.com/group/lesswrongwaterloo) for more announcements and a better venue for discussion.
Hope to see everyone there! Slight edit: This week's meetup is at Symposium (http://www.symposiumcafe.com/waterloorestaurants.html).
EDIT: Tonight's meetup is at 9pm, not 8pm. Sorry!
I just made the reservation - it's under Sandy, but I'll have a sign too, so don't worry too much about finding us. We're expecting a turn out of about 10 people :)
LWers from Waterloo - of whom I know there are a few - assemble!
It looks like there have been a few meetups in the past, but nobody has been responding to my PM's, so I thought I'd take matters into my own hands. Rationality is too important to wait around for.
As a topic, I was thinking "what does LW mean to you?", but in my experience the conversation usually takes its own wings.
Hope to see everyone there!
Honestly, my maginal returns of spending time on LW dropped drastically since I finished reading the sequences. Attending local meetups was kinda fun to meet some like-minded people, but they inevitably were far behind in the sequences and for the most part always struck me as trying to identify as a rationalist rather than trying to become more rationalist. This strikes me as the crux of the issue: LW has become (slash might have always been) an attractor of nerd social status, which is fine if that's its stated goal, though this doesn't seem to be the issue.
Additionally, in the 5 years I've been attending meetups (at least six different ones in... (read more)