Hot on the heels of October's meetup, I present to you the details for November's meetup!

Date: Friday, November 5th

Place: Don Tojo

Time: 6-9pm

Please comment to say if you're attending, and also to suggest activities.

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Perhaps this is juvenile, but I think it would be amusing if part of the meetup consisted of zealously handing out "The Twelve Virtues of Rationality" pamphlets (which conveniently is available in pamphlet form: http://yudkowsky.net/assets/pdf/twelve_virtues.pdf); like you see Christians handing out evangelistic paraphernalia in shopping malls, street corners etc. Ideally in some sort of uniform dress, like monastic (Bayesian master inspired: http://lesswrong.com/static/imported/2008/03/27/elimonk2darker.jpg) cloaks.

Or if you could integrate the pamphlet distribution as part of a flash mob activity/public prank.

I will attend this.

Compared to online posting, the advantage of meetups seems to be (1) less formality and (2) quicker transfer of ideas. I think this makes meetups particularly suitable for advice. I would be interested in trying some activity that promotes exchange of advice. Perhaps an activity where a person is encouraged to provide a personal problem that is in need of application of instrumental rationality, and then others try to generate a solution. Example problem classes: diet, akrasia, career, education, relationships, etc.

I would be very interested in this.

Looks good, is there any set topics or general areas of discussion?

[-]matt10

See you all there.

I'll come.

I'm all for it!

I should be able to attend.

It looks like 5 November is the day we'll be arriving in Melbourne, so unfortunately I won't attend this meetup.

Perhaps the next one.

Cheers,

David