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Open thread, Mar. 23 - Mar. 31, 2015
Yavanna30

Hi, anyone in Ithaca? I'd like to start some sort of Effective Altruism meet-up/club. The lovely people at the EA forum suggested asking here.

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0Dorikka
Missed me by a year, just graduated from uni last year and am now in Texas. Best of luck though! :)
Before the seed. Intro
Yavanna00

One time I was walking around campus carrying a fern and a kid asked what type of flower it was. I stifled my laughter. Does that count as being gentle?

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0[anonymous]
I meant gentle enough to take over the world...
Before the seed. Intro
Yavanna20

I'm very much looking forward to reading this! Not only is it about plants, I also quite enjoy your writing style. Curious what non-plant-people will get out of it though, unless I've missed some introduction

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0[anonymous]
Thanks! I'll add the links to the previous discussions of kin vs. group selection on LW. That is the introduction I am building on. Forgot to do it being too excited:) (There's no such thing as non-plant-people, they just need to come to terms with it, it can be rough, waking up to the plant-peopleness for the first time. We ought to be gentle...)
Ithaca Meetup?
Yavanna10

I imagine you two have graduated by now. For future people who search lesswrong for 'Cornell' or 'Ithaca' I'm here until probably 2018, and if I find other effective altruism-interested people I'm thinking we could start a campus club. Let me know that you exist!

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0Dorikka
Graduated last year. Good skill to you. :)
0MarsColony_in10years
I'm in Corning NY, which is about about an hour drive from Ithaca. The Less Wrong Map doesn't seem to show anyone in the Ithaca or Corning areas, and neither does the duplicate map that someone linked to in the comments. However, another comments link was to the Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality wrap party map, which does show 2 email addresses of people in Ithaca. I know that a large proportion or LWers read HPMOR, but I'm not sure what the odds of any given HPMOR reader being aware of or interested in LessWrong/Effective Altruism. (Although about a third of LW is involved in EA, according to the recent survey.) It can't hurt to email them though. I'd be interested, and would try to make the drive to Ithaca for a LW meetup, or maybe an EA meetup. My EA-related thoughts are focused mainly around existential risk and global catastrophic risk though, so I'm not sure how much overlap of interest we have within the Effective Altruism sphere.